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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.

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                  | 0       |       0 |
                  |    _____|_____    |
                  |   |     |     |   |
                  |   |    -1-    |   |
                  |   |     |     |   |
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Now let us try one or two interpretations.

What are we to make of this, with regard to x and y?

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                  |         |       0 |
                  |    _____|_____    |
                  |   |     |     |   |
                  |   |  1  |  0  |   |
                  |   |     |     |   |
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This tells us, with regard to the xy'-Square, that it is wholly 'empty', since BOTH compartments are so marked. With regard to the xy-Square, it tells us that it is 'occupied'. True, it is only

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