However, it is not a thing, because it can be everything.

However, it is not a thing, because it can be everything. The circle, for example, is. The same is true of the square, the white, the black, the plant, and the stone. Existence, therefore, is nothing determined. Consequently, it is not. This is the antithesis which the thesis produces. It is in this way that contradiction occurs in the notion of existence.

This contradiction is resolved in the synthesis of existence and non-existence which produces an existent that does not fully exist, that is, becoming and movement. Hence, the conclusion to be drawn is that real existence is becoming. We gave this example in order to show how the master of modern disputation moves in inferring the general notions from…