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3.24

A proposition about a complex stands in internal relation to the proposition about its consituent part.

A complex can only be given by its description, and this will either be right or wrong. The propostion in which there is mention of a complex, if this does not exist, becomes not nonsense but simply false.

That a propositional element signifies a complex can be seen from an indeterminateness in the propositions in which it occurs. We know that everything is not yet determined by this proposition. (The notation for generality contains a prototype.)

The combination of the symbols of a complex in a simple symbol can be expressed by a definition.

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