"it is the connection of an indicative word to a symbolic word which makes an assertion"

"To assert a proposition is to make oneself responsible for it, without any definite forfeit, it is true, but with a forfeit no smaller for
being unnamed"

"This compulsion strikes him at a certain instant; and he remains
under it forever after"

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