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spiritual being. The far more special “Some one” restricts 
tbe field to persons, or even human beings. Gender inflection 
may still further confine it to men or to women. But within 
the narrowed field indefiniteness remains complete. 
In such a narrowed field interrogation commonly operates. 
In asking “Who killed Lincoln ?,” the fact that the desired idea 
is clothed with attributes enough to fix it perhaps in the cate¬ 
gory “Man,” has little practical value. I am still so far from 
having the idea which I wish to have, that, within my present 
universe of desire, I may surely go so far as to call the desired 
idea substance short of attribute or, in that special sense, indefi¬ 
nite. 
Without examining further these and other differences be¬ 
tween indefinites, I venture to use the “Some one” instead of 
“x” and to express the horizontal thought of my diagram by 
the sentence “I desire you to tell me some one.” 
I think it also proper to use the “Some one” in expressing 
the perpendicular thought. For obviously the person whom I 
wish you toi tell me, and the person thought of as killing Lin¬ 
coln, are the same. Accordingly, 
I desire you to tell me some one 
killed 
Lincoln. 
Crude as it is, this diagram appears to me to express an 
interrogative judgment with sufficient clearness to enable an 
actively cooperating and intelligent mind to find a desired idea, 
and to induce such a mind to tell the said idea, if so disposed. 
The only peculiarity of the diagram is a slight peculiarity in 
the use of the indefinite. From this may be inferred the con¬ 
clusion, later to be reached, that every so-called “interrogative 
word” is based upon merely a somewhat peculiarly used indefi¬ 
nite. 
In this diagram I note that the idea expressed by “some one,” 
being simultaneously part of the horizontal thought and part 
of the perpendicular, stands in need of twice as much aid from 
inflection as it would require, if used in only one of its two 
thought-factorships. The word is on the one hand used as direct 
object in the horizontal sentence; and this it would be well 
to indicate by accusative inflection. On the other hand the 
word is used as subject in the perpendicular sentence; and this 
