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5.525
It is not correct to render the proposition "( EXISTS x) . fx" -- as Russell does -- in the words "fx is possible".

Certainty, possibility or impossibility of a state of affairs are not expressed by a proposition but by the fact that an expression is a tautology, a significant proposition or a contradiction.

That precedent to which one would always appeal, must be present in the symbol itself.


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