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φαν16

“Thought.”

I trust by this time, Reader, that you are conscious of having some
idea, which perhaps is not so dim as it seems to you to be, of what
I mean by calling Existential Graphs a moving-picture of Thought.
Please note that I have not called it a perfect picture. I am
aware that it is not so: indeed, that is quite obvious. But I hold
that it is considerably more nearly perfect than it seems to be
at first glance, and quite sufficiently so to be called a
portraiture of Thought. Yet very likely you may be indisposed
to admit this except in some very gross sense. Certainly, no
true scholar of mine in any science, least of all in logic, for
all my having sometimes playfully called my fundamental
principle “Ceno-pythagoreanism” (“ceno” = καινός, new), at all