E. CONFORMITY OF A PARADOXICAL LOGIC WITH COMMON-SENSE. _T. L. G._, p. 100: "But I was thinking of a plan To dye one's whiskers green, And always use so large a fan That they could not be seen." (Verse from White Knight's song.) F. IDEALISTS AND THE LAWS OF LOGIC. _T. L. G._, p. 52-3: Tweedledee exclaimed: "'... if he [the Red King] left off dreaming about you [Alice], where do you suppose you'd be?' "'Where I am now, of course,' said Alice. "'Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. 'You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!' "'If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out--bang!--just like a candle!' "'I shouldn't!' Alice exclaimed indignantly. 'Besides, if _I'm_ only a sort of thing in his dream, what are _you_, I should like to know?' "'Ditto,' said Tweedledum...; 'you know very well you're not real.' "'I _am_ real!' said Alice, and began to cry." * * * * * _T. L. G._, p. 97: "'How _can_ you go on talking so quietly, head downwards?' Alice asked, as she dragged him out by the feet, and laid him in a heap on the bank. "The Knight looked surprised at the question. 'What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.'" * * * * * _T. L. G._, p. 98: "'... Everybody that hears me sing--either it brings the _tears_ into their eyes, or else----' "'Or else what?' said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "'Or else it doesn't, you know.'" G. DISTINCTION BETWEEN SIGN AND SIGNIFICATION. _T. L. G._, pp. 98-9: "'The name of the song is called "_Haddocks' Eyes_."' "'Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to feel interested. "'No, you don't understand,' the Knight said looking a little vexed. 'That's what the name is _called_. The name really _is_ "_The Aged Aged Man_."' "'Then I ought to have said "That's what the _song_ is called"?' Alice corrected herself. "'No, you oughtn't: that's another thing. The _song_ is called "_Ways and Means_": but that's only what it's _called_, you know!' "'Well, what _is_ the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. "'I was coming to that,' the Knight said. 'The song really _is "A-sitting on a Gate_"....'" H. NOMINALISM. _A. A. W._, p. 70: "'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. "'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.' "'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'Why, you might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see."' "'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'