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conceived this to be done. This continuum
must clearly have more dimensions
than a surface or even than a solid; and we
will suppose it to be plastic, so that it can
be deformed in all sorts of ways
without the continuity and connection of parts
being ever ruptured. Of this continuum
the blank sheet of assertion may be imagined
to be a photograph. When we find
out that a proposition is true, we can
place it wherever we please on the
sheet, because we can imagine the
original continuum which is plastic
to be so deformed as to bring any number
of propositions to any