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moment beating the other; and the "moment" must be a time
long enough to allow the beating to be an actual fact, and not a
mere intention or probability. The assertion is that somebody
is beating somebody.

(beats.laughs
Fig. 3.)

In Fig. 3, by Convention No. 2, the same person who
is said to be laughing must be the one who is said to be getting
beaten. So the assertion is "Somebody is beating a person who is laugh-
ing," or what is precisely the same, "Somebody who is laughing is getting
beaten." The very same thing is asserted in Fig. 4. For conti-
guity signifies identity; and the line is nothing but a
continuum of contiguous points.

(beats~laughs
Fig. 4.)

Fig. 5 asserts that a fabulist is laughing while
he is getting beaten. This graph contain the graph of