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(except instantaneously, and an Instant is a fiction, an ens rationis),
but Positions are either vaguely described states of motion of small
range, or else (what is the better view,) are entia rationis (i.e. fictions
recognized to be fictions, and thus no longer fictions) invented
for the purposes of clear descriptions of states of motion; so likewise,
Thought (I am not talking Psychology, but Logic, or the essence of Semeotics [Semeiotics?])
cannot, from the nature of it, be at rest, or be anything but
inferential process; and propositions are either roughly described
states of thought-motion, or are artificial creations intended
to render the description of thought-motion possible; and Names
are creations of a second order in service to render the represen-
tation of propositions possible. An Argument may be defined as a
Sign which intends itself to be understood as fulfilling its function only,

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This page (πλ 103) apparently ends with a comma followed by the word "only" crossed out; but the next page in this collection is not marked πλ 104 and seems entirely unrelated to this one.