Note 256 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Symbolic Logic, p. 131. Again, in such a proposition as “Some sea-serpents are not half a mile long” (meaning your so-called sea-serpents), the subject of the proposition exists in the universe to which reference is made, namely, the universe which may be described as the universe of travellers’ tales. We are here regarding the proposition as elliptical in a sense that has been already explained.