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supplementary resumés will not come amiss.

II. Thought and Thought-sign.

The first point to be made in the argument,—the first position
secured,—is that Existential Graphs afford a moving-picture of thought
in all its essential details. But the proposition in this
abridged enunciation leaves room for several misconceptions of
vital importance against which I must take care that the reader
is well guarded before I attempt to convince him of its truth.

To begin with, then, it is not pretended that the system
of Existential Graphs is indispensable to such an analysis
of thought as may serve as a pattern to which Pragmaticism, in order to be true, must
conform. Indeed, for many years before my own
possession of this system, and while I as yet had nothing but only the
traditionary methods of logic for my implements,