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This instructional book presents a logic game played with a diagram and nine counters. It explains how to express propositions through the relationship between things and their attributes.

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NEW LAMPS FOR OLD.

means "some x and y," i.e. "some new are nice."

I think you will see without further explanation, that

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means "some x are y'," i.e. "some new are not-nice."

Now let us put a GREY counter into No. 5, and ask ourselves the meaning of

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This tells us that the x y-compartment is EMPTY, which we may express by "no x are y", or, "no new Cakes are nice". This is the second of the three Propositions at the head of this Section.

In the same way,

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would mean "no x are y'," or, "no new Cakes are not-nice."

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