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skins of an onion are the onion. [About as much so, however.]
One selfsame thought may be carried upon the vehicle of
English, German, Greek, or Gaelic, in diagrams or in equations, or
in Graphs: all these are but so many skins of the onion. Do I hear a
mutter, "If he intends that thought is the meaning of the signs, I wonder
what he means by his odd phrase, 'the meaning of a concept!" Well,
wonder on, till truth make all things plain, when you shall have come
to discern what "meaning" means.

An unpenetrating study of the rules of Graphs would not
much more aid a person to comprehend the common nature of the
significance of Greek or Gaelic grammar; which would itself be of not very