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Of Propositions Merely Verbal. He pointed over to the piano and said:The hell there isnt. There’s a hundred dollars in it, if you’ll stick it out until the neighbors and the manager make you stop. § 1. In order that we may possess a language perfectly suitable for the investigation and expression of general truths, there are two principal, and several minor requisites. The first is, that every general name should have a meaning, steadily fixed, and precisely determined. When, by the fulfillment of this condition, such names as we possess are fitted for the due performance of their functions, the next requisite, and the second in order of importance, is that we should possess a name wherever one is needed; wherever there is any thing to be designated by it, which it is of importance toexpress. Oh, making all sorts of veiled threats, you know how these people are. Im telling you the truth. One woman even stuck a cigarette in there, and lit it, and smoked it. With her vagina! I mean it. Blew smoke rings from her vagina! Anything but what it’s meant for, right? God, I hated Bangkok! The air was so polluted, my eyes burned all the time. You know what they do in Thailand, Andy? Pregnant women drink the milk from young coconuts so their babies’ll be born with lovely skin, did you know that? A mans voice. Thats fine, that’s fine. In asserting that the truth of a proposition depends on the conformity of import between its terms, as, for instance, that the proposition, Socrates is wise, is a true proposition, because Socrates and wise are names applicable to, or, as he expresses it, names of, the same person; it is very remarkable that so powerful a thinker should not have asked himself the question, But how came they to be names of the same person? Surely not because such was the intention of those who invented the words. When mankind fixed the meaning of the word wise, they were not thinking of Socrates, nor, when his parents gave him the name of Socrates, were they thinking of wisdom. The nameshappen to fit the same person because of a certain fact, which fact was not known, nor in being, when the names were invented. If we want to know what the fact is, we shall find the clue to it in the connotation of the names. It may fairly be doubted whether the transitions, in this instance, are any thing more than equivalent forms. For the propositionSocrates was the master of Plato and fought at Delium, compounded out of the two premises, is obviously nothing more than a grammatical abbreviation. No one can say that there is here any change of meaning, or any thing beyond a verbal modification of the original form. The next step is, ‘The master of Plato fought at Delium,’ which is the previous statement cut down by the omission of Socrates. It contents itself with reproducing a part of the meaning, or saying less than had been previously said. The full equivalent of the affirmation is, ‘The master of Plato fought at Delium, and the master of Plato was Socrates:’ the new form omits the last piece of information, and gives only the first. Now, we never consider that we have made a real inference, a step in advance, when we repeat less than we are entitled to say, or drop from a complex statement some portion not desired at the moment. Such an operation keeps strictly within the domain of equivalence, or Immediate Inference. In no way, therefore, can a syllogism with two singular premises be viewed as a genuine syllogistic or deductive inference. (Logic, i., 159.) He tried to think of a word and I watched his eyes. Usually they were soft and brown and good-natured, but now they looked as though a shade had been pulled over them. Glazed. I said:Oh, no difference. She was pretty, though. Oh, Ill bet. The way you love it. His brain raced, trying to make sense of what had happened. And why the darkness? Had lightning caused a power outage? So be it. Not in America, dont kid yourself. No one in this country is willing to give an emerging artist a break! No one! They come around in skintight pants, you can see their genitals and everything, and they stand outside your shop window and slit their throats with their fingers, how are you supposed to work in that kind of threatening climate? In all the years I was married to her, I never found the courage to correct her grammar. She is an educated person, a bookseller no less, and I am a teacher of English. But she still says,Youre looking well instead of “You’re looking good, and she still says, “I feel badly about this instead of “I feel bad about this. When we were married, I used to wince at these grammatical lapses. We are no longer married. I no longer care if she uses “Between you and I for “Between you and me. That was the worst of her assaults on the English language, and she used it with supreme confidence and maddening regularity. But I no longer care. I no longer care about her at all. That is the sadness of it. I looked at the check and he said:It wont come back to you, like Joey’s did. I’ll promise you that. Of Empirical Laws. Rob didnt stop to think until he found himself in the back seat of the big sedan between two well-dressed, quiet-spoken men. His chance acquaintance at the bus depot and the man in overalls occupied the front seat. Uh-huh? He turned and descended to the lower deck..