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to accompany any and every graph scribed
on the sheet of assertion. It is truly fortunate
that this is permitted, inasmuch
as it is would be physically impossible that a
blank should not accompany every
graph. The truth is that the system
of existential graphs was intentionally
contrived so that this matter should
take care of itself. Here, again,
therefore, no permission is called for.

Passing to the blot, or pseudograph,
of which you remember the meaning is that everything is true,
the predication of the definition concerning the definitum
is that within any even
number of cuts where the blot is
scribed any graph we please may be
scribed and inserted and within any
odd number of cuts where the blot is any

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to accompany any and every graph scribed
on the sheet of assertion. It is truly fortunate
that this is permitted, inasmuch
as it would be physically impossible that a
blank should not accompany every
graph. The truth is that the system
of existential graphs was intentionally
contrived so that this matter should
take care of itself. Here, again,
therefore, no permission is called for.

Passing to the blot, or pseudograph,
of which you remember the meaning is that everything is true,
the predication of the definition concerning the definitum
is that within any even
number of cuts where the blot is
any graph we please may be
inserted and within any
odd number of cuts where the blot is any