Of course one has a right to use a mark of assertion || an assertion sign in contrast, for instance, to a question mark. The mistake is only in thinking || to think that the assertion now consists in || of two acts, the consideration and the assertion || considering and the asserting (assigning the truth value, or something of that sort || whatever you call it), and that we perform these acts according to the signs in || of the sentence, rather || almost as we sing from notes. We might certainly compare reading loudly or softly || silently according to the written sentence with singing from notes, || What can be compared with || to the singing from notes is the reading aloud, or to oneself, of the signs of the sentence; but not “the meaning” (◇the thinking) of the sentence that is read.

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