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1908 Nov 7
Logic
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I should not wonder if you were disposed to dispute this last
statement; and if I were sure that a beginner in this line of
thought were really so disposed, I should be much encouraged,
and should say, It is you who so dispute me whom I am addressing
in the second person; for I cannot communicate what
I have to communicate to any but a critical reader,--a critical
reader who will gladly yield when his objections shall be fairly
met, but not before. Let us all hear, then, what you have to say.
Let us me insert little dialogues when objections occur to me

You. I should be inclined to say that what you were directly
aware of was rather the appearance of an obtuse isosceles triangle
than Etna itself; although I do not promise to grant without
argument that you were directly aware even of the isosceles triangle.