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<p>Because references to an alphabet of punctuation marks can be difficult to process in the ordinary style of text, it helps to have alternative ways of naming these symbols.</p>
 
<p>Because references to an alphabet of punctuation marks can be difficult to process in the ordinary style of text, it helps to have alternative ways of naming these symbols.</p>
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<p>First, I use raised angle brackets <math>{}^{\langle} \ldots {}^{\rangle},\!</math> or ''supercilia'', as alternate forms of quotation marks.</p>
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First, I use raised angle brackets (<...>), or "supercilia", as alternate forms of quotation marks.
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| <math>\underline{\underline{X}} = \underline{\underline{X}}_\text{MON} = \{ ~ {}^{\langle} ~ {}^{\rangle} ~ , ~ {}^{\langle} , {}^{\rangle} ~ , ~ {}^{\langle} \{ {}^{\rangle} ~ , ~ {}^{\langle} \} {}^{\rangle} ~ \}.\!</math>
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X  =  XMON  =  { < > , <,> , <{> , <}> }.
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<p>Second, I use a collection of conventional names to refer to the symbols.</p>
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Second, I use a collection of conventional names to refer to the symbols.
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| <math>\underline{\underline{X}} = \underline{\underline{X}}_\text{MON} = \{ \text{blank}, \text{comma}, \text{lbrace}, \text{rbrace} \}.\!</math>
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X  =  XMON  =  { blank, comma, enbow, exbow }.
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<p>Although it is possible to present this MON in a way that dispenses with blanks and commas, the more expansive language laid out here turns out to have capacities that are useful beyond this immediate context.</p>
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Although it is possible to present this MON in a way that dispenses with blanks and commas, the more expansive language laid out here turns out to have capacities that are useful beyond this immediate context.
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2. Reflection principles in propositional calculus.  Many statements about the order are also statements in the order.  Many statements in the order are already statements about the order.
 
2. Reflection principles in propositional calculus.  Many statements about the order are also statements in the order.  Many statements in the order are already statements about the order.
  
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