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miicli as ^Svliat" is felt to express by multiple sjinbolization all 

 the value of ''that" and 'Svhich." 



So far then so good. But, instead of dealing with place, as 

 above, let the simultaneous factor deal with attitude. Accord- 

 ingly, "He lay in the attitude in which he fell." Substituting as 

 before a somewhat indefinite synonym for ''in the attitude," and 

 another for "in which," I obtain "Thus he lay as he fell." This 

 sentence, on the one hand, closely resembles the preceding even 

 in meaning. I have merely substituted the mutual space relation 

 of body members for the space relation of the body itself to other 

 objects. That is, I mean that "He lies in the arrangement, so to 

 speak, in which he fell," instead of "He lies in the location in 

 which he fell." On the other hand, in structure the two sen- 

 tences are exactly similar. But in "Thus he lies as he fell," I 

 think that Grammar does not distinctly recognize the relative 

 character of any word. Indeed, if I let the "as" express by mul- 

 tiple symbolization all the meaning of "thus as," obtaining 

 "He lies as he fell," the "as" is commonly put by Grammar in 

 the obscure category of conjunctions. 



Reserving closer examination of relative procedure for special 

 sections under that caption, I merely claim for the moment that 

 "as," in the present class of cases, is distinctly relative. I be- 

 lieve, indeed, though without exhaustive examination, that all 

 of the so-called correlatives which are employed without an inter- 

 vening thought-break, will be found to be twin servants of a sim- 

 ultaneous thought-factor, the first member of the pair effecting 

 that thought-factor's initial nomination and the second serving 

 merely to adjust it to a second environment. 



In further illustration I note that "A is as great as B" is an ob- 

 vious equivalent of "A equals B (in magnitude)." The indirect- 

 ness of the first expression might well excite astonishment, were 

 it not adopted by many cultured peoples. For, my intention b&- 

 ing to compare two magnitudes, I strictly ought to say that the 

 greatness of the one is ecjual to that of the other. But, making 

 a false start, I put it centrally that "A is great." This announce- 

 ment, futile in itself, I may utilize by developing it into "A is 

 great to the degree to which B is great.'* Of this expression I 

 propose to show that "A is as great as B" is the exact equivalent. 



In the first place the phrases "aussi gi'and que/^ "so gross 



