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but which may, for all that, be true, and
therefore continuous with the sheet of
assertion itself, although this is
uncertain. You may regard the ordinary
blank sheet of assertion as a film upon
which there is, as it were, an undeveloped photograph
of the facts in the universe. I do not mean
a literal picture, because its elements are
propositions, and the meaning of a proposition
is abstract and altogether of a
different nature from a picture. But I
ask you to imagine all the true propositions
to have been formulated; and
since facts blend into one another, it
can only be in a continuum that we can