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jasirs94 at Nov 23, 2016 09:19 PM

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sense in which the is one word, are strictly generals. 'The,' for example, occupies no place; for although we use locutions that seem to say so, we only mean that three line-figures in that place, which fulfill certain conditions (of very intricate nature,) which make them interpretable as 'The'. The intricacy of the conditions illustrated by the circumstance that nobody would say that when I wrote the word 'nychthemeron' (To the Printer: set the three letters the in this word heavy-faced) I wrote the word 'the', are interpreted as 'the'. The word itself is plainly a certain general rule of interpretation concerning three line-figures fulfilling certain general conditions. Any

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