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====Differential Analysis of Propositions and Transformations====
 
====Differential Analysis of Propositions and Transformations====
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<p>The resultant metaphysical problem now is this:</p>
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<p>''Does the man go round the squirrel or not?''</p>
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he resultant metaphysical problem now is this: ''Does the man go round the squirrel or not?''
 
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<p>William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 43]</p>
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=====The Secant Operator : <font face=georgia>'''E'''</font>=====
 
=====The Secant Operator : <font face=georgia>'''E'''</font>=====
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<p>Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules for action, said that, to develop a thought's meaning, we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce:  that conduct is for us its sole significance.</p>
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<p>William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 46]</p>
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Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules for action, said that, to develop a thought's meaning, we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce:  that conduct is for us its sole significance.
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| align="right" colspan="3" | &mdash; William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 46]
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=====The Radius Operator : <font face=georgia>'''e'''</font>=====
 
=====The Radius Operator : <font face=georgia>'''e'''</font>=====
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<p>And the tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice.</p>
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<p>William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 46]</p>
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And the tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice.
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| align="right" colspan="3" | &mdash; William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 46]
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=====The Phantom of the Operators : '''&eta;'''=====
 
=====The Phantom of the Operators : '''&eta;'''=====
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<p>I was wondering what the reason could be, when I myself raised my head and everything within me seemed drawn towards the Unseen, ''which was playing the most perfect music''!</p>
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<p>Gaston Leroux, ''The Phantom of the Opera'', [Ler, 81]</p>
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I was wondering what the reason could be, when I myself raised my head and everything within me seemed drawn towards the Unseen, ''which was playing the most perfect music''!
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| align="right" colspan="3" | &mdash; Gaston Leroux, ''The Phantom of the Opera'', [Ler, 81]
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=====The Chord Operator : <font face=georgia>'''D'''</font>=====
 
=====The Chord Operator : <font face=georgia>'''D'''</font>=====
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<p>What difference would it practically make to any one if this notion rather than that notion were true?  If no practical difference whatever can be traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle.</p>
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<p>William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 45]</p>
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What difference would it practically make to any one if this notion rather than that notion were true?  If no practical difference whatever can be traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle.
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=====The Tangent Operator : <font face=georgia>'''T'''</font>=====
 
=====The Tangent Operator : <font face=georgia>'''T'''</font>=====
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<p>They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling.  They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken.  So we are tangent to the wider life of things.</p>
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<p>William James, ''Pragmatism'', [Jam, 300]</p>
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They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling.  They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken.  So we are tangent to the wider life of things.
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===Transformations of Type '''B'''<sup>2</sup> &rarr; '''B'''<sup>1</sup>===
 
===Transformations of Type '''B'''<sup>2</sup> &rarr; '''B'''<sup>1</sup>===
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