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since existential graphs will be the only ones
dealt with, I shall call it a graph, simply.
For example, what I have just written scribed is
a graph. The board itself is a graph, since
it represents the universe as consisting
of single imaginary things. The board and what is
written on it together make up another graph.

We must, It is quite important, however, to distinguish between
a graph and a graph replica. Suppose
an editor writes to me and asks for
an article of 4000 words. You know what
he means by words in that case.
Suppose however I say that the In what I write the single word “the” may occur
twenty times on every page. Every time
it will count as a separate word. Yet in
another sense, it is the same word. In
this latter sense, the word the consists in the
sum total of general conditions to which
ink-marks or voice-sounds must conform
in order to be understood in a certain way.