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Desperation fetish

At first sight this division has the air of an absurdity; a solemn distinction of things into one and more than one; as if we were to divide horses into single horses and teams of horses. And it is true that what is called a complex (or compound) proposition is often not a proposition at all, but several propositions, held together by a conjunction. Such, for example, is this: Cæsar is dead, and Brutus is alive: or even this, Cæsar is dead,but Brutus is alive. There are here two distinct assertions; and we might as well call a street a complex house, as these two propositions a complex proposition. It is true that the syncategorematic words and and but have a meaning; but that meaning is so far from making the two propositions one, that it adds a third proposition to them. All particles are abbreviations, and generally abbreviations of propositions; a kind of short-hand, whereby something which, to be expressed fully, would have required a proposition or a series of propositions, is suggested to the mind at once. Thus the words, Cæsar is dead and Brutus is alive, are equivalent to these: Cæsar is dead; Brutus is alive; it is desired that the two preceding propositions should be thought of together. If the words were, Cæsar is dead, but Brutus is alive, the sense would be equivalent to the same three propositions together with a fourth; between the two preceding propositions there exists a contrast: viz., either between the two facts themselves, or between the feelings with which it is desired that they should be regarded. Linda considered the matter for several seconds.No funny business, she said at length. Two guys charged with house-breaking, assault, and a bunch of other stuff. Connell is going to face a gun charge. The other guy is going up against aggravated assault. Crandall is coming down to charge them. Rob said,Of course not. Even if Id wanted to, I couldn’t even see the sights. I just shot in the general direction of the boat. I don’t think the bullets came within a mile of the man. The big man removed the ball of his foot from Robs wrists. Okay, Rob, he said, “let’s roll over and see what we’ve got in the other side... Hold it a second, let’s take a look in that inside coat pocket... Oh, yes, a wallet, driving license and... hey, wait a minute. What’s this? A notebook! Youve known him for a long time? You mean you wont call Dr. Dixon? Right after you came in I saw a car pass by slow. Like the guy was looking the place over. Now theres a guy hanging around across the street and he’s been there for fifteen minutes. They’ve got the place staked just as sure as God makes little green apples. Their numerical equality under all the figures; and Jam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna.... Roy tried to sit up, but the nurse immediately held him back.Sil vous plaît— please — just rest.’ Is she listening to her voices? I wonder. Are they advising her to run for the hills? Or are they working out a defense? Now he could hear music. Like a church choir singing. A truth, necessary and universal, relative to any object of our knowledge, must verify itself in every instance where that object is before our contemplation, and if at the same time it be simple and intelligible, its verification must be obvious.The sentiment of such a truth can not, therefore, but be present to our minds whenever that object is contemplated, and must therefore make a part of the mental picture or idea of that object which we may on any occasion summon before our imagination.... All propositions, therefore, become not only untrue but inconceivable, if ... axioms be violated in their enunciation. It will appear hereafter, in treating of reasoning, how much the theory of that intellectual process has been vitiated by the influence of these erroneous notions, and by the habit which they exemplify of assimilating all the operations of the human understanding which have truth for their object, to processes of mere classification and naming. Unfortunately, the minds which have been entangled in this net are precisely those which have escaped the other cardinal error commented upon in the beginning of the present chapter. Since the revolution which dislodged Aristotle from the schools, logicians may almost be divided into those who have looked upon reasoning as essentially an affair of Ideas, and those who have looked upon it as essentially an affair of Names. 1st. Paralyzed muscles have greater irritability than healthy muscles. Now, paralyzed muscles are later in assuming the cadaveric rigidity than healthy muscles, the rigidity lasts longer, and putrefaction sets in later, and proceeds more slowly. § 2. Chance is usually spoken of in direct antithesis to law; whatever, it is supposed, can not be ascribed to any law is attributed to chance. It is, however, certain that whatever happens is the result of some law; is an effect of causes, and could have been predicted from a knowledge of the existence of those causes, and from their laws. If I turn up a particular card, that is a consequence of its place in the pack. Its place in the pack was a consequence of the manner in which the cards were shuffled, or of the order in which they were played in the last game; which, again, were effects of prior causes. At every stage, if we had possessed an accurate knowledge of the causes in existence, it would have been abstractedly possible to foretell the effect. I may say, for instance,the sun. The word has a meaning, and suggests that meaning to the mind of any one who is listening to me. But suppose I ask him, Whether it is true: whether he believes it? He can give no answer. There is as yet nothing to believe, or to disbelieve. Now, however, let me make, of all possible assertions respecting the sun, the one which involves the least of reference to any object besides itself; let me say, “the sun exists. Here, at once, is something which a person can say he believes. But here, instead of only one, we find two distinct objects of conception: the sun is one object; existence is another. Let it not be said that this second conception, existence, is involved in the first; for the sun may be conceived as no longer existing. “The sun does not convey all the meaning that is conveyed by “the sun exists: “my father does not include all themeaning of “my father exists, for he may be dead; “a round square does not include the meaning of “a round square exists, for it does not and can not exist. When I say “the sun, “my father, or a “round square, I do not call upon the hearer for any belief or disbelief, nor can either the one or the other be afforded me; but if I say, “the sun exists, “my father exists, or “a round square exists, I call for belief; and should, in the first of the three instances, meet with it; in the second, with belief or disbelief, as the case mightbe; in the third, with disbelief. Why? desperation fetish.