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When one speaks of Not-pink one is apt to think of green things and yellow things and to ignore anger or abstract nouns or the sound of thunder. And logicians, following the normal bias of the mind, do actually present A and not-A in this sort of diagram: ignoring altogether the difficult case of the space in which these words are printed.
See," he began checking off on his fingers, "there is Severine, and Alphosen, and Josephine, and Hectorine, and Louise, and Malvina why, I could love any of them girls! Why don't you get after them? Are you stuck up, Emil, or is anything the matter with you? I never did know a boy twenty-two years old before that didn't have no girl. You wanna be a priest, maybe? Not-a for me!" Amedee swaggered.
In the City of Mexico they ain't-a sit like stumps when they hear that, not-a much! When they like, they just-a give you the town." Thea laughed. She, too, was excited. "Think so, Johnny? Come, sing something with me. EL PARRENO; I haven't sung that for a long time." Johnny laughed and hugged his guitar. "You not-a forget him?" He began teasing his strings. "Come!"
"I have not-a the pleasure of knowing-a the Miss Minnie, but the jewelry, when she arrives, to the throat-a of Miss Yerba, she has not lost the value the beauty the charm." "No," said Woods, cheerily. "The fact is, Baker, you were too slow. Miss Yerba's folks gobbled up the necklace while you were thinking. You were a new-comer. Old 'forty-niners' did not hesitate over a thing they wanted."
But in doing this we run the risk of being captured by the ill-disposed tribes, and being very ill used, if not-a " "Roasted alive and eaten," cried Peterkin. "Come, out with it, Jack. According to your own showing, it's well to look the danger straight in the face!" "Well, that is the worst of it, certainly. Are you prepared, then, to take your chance of that?"
"It's all av our necks ye've put into a rope, this time, damn you!" The Mexican had dismounted and was calmly reloading his pistol. "You t'ink-a he's not-a sufficiently kill? I go over to da car and bring-a you da proof, si?" "You'll come wid me," raved the big contractor. "'Tis out av your clumsy hands, now, ye black-hearted blunderin' cross betune a Digger Indian and a Mexican naygur!
Antithesis is in the Frenchman's blood; he thinks in it and speaks in it, in the salon or on the platform, in witty jest or in scientific earnestness of thought. Either A or not-A, and there is no middle ground. This habit of precision and sharp analysis facilitates the formation of closed parties, whereas each individual German, in philosophy as in politics, forms a party of his own.
As the first is sometimes called that of Affirmation, so this is called that of Negation. It prescribes that a thing is not that which it is not. Its formula is, “A is not not-A.” If this seems trivial, it is because it is so familiar. These two laws are two aspects of the same law.
"Ain't you signed the contract yet?" Morris cried. "Not-a yet," Simonetti answered. "Just-a now I am going." "Baskof," Morris urged, "supposing you and me goes together with Mr. Simonetti to the Harlem Winter Garden and talks the thing over." Simonetti looked amazedly at Baskof. "Sure," Baskof said. "It ain't too late if he ain't signed the contract." "What do you mean?" Simonetti asked.
Your brains and eyes ought to be spared from overwork. We shall hear of you as blind or paralytic next. Tell your mother that we have to "stand to our colors" for the climate of New England nowadays, else they would be all blown away. It 's awful weather in New York too, I hope. I don't go out much. Really, if this March were not-a march to spring, it would be a hard campaign.
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