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I., we may say that it is: while again emphasising with equal one-sidedness, on the negative aspect of the same as in Form II., we may well say as well that it is not. But a critical examination will reveal to us that · both the positive and negative aspects exist in the same object simultaneously, although we cannot describe them in one
moment.
transcending
aspects conceives the at Co-existence
tory attri
same thing.
Here we think it is worthy of note that Thought only our incapacity for describing at one
and the same moment both the seemingly
antagonistic natures existing simultaneously contradic- is only referred to. We need not imagine,
however, that our thought cannot apprehend them at one moment. On the other hand, it is thought only that by virtue of selfconsciousness can transcend this duality of aspects existing in the same thing. Even, we may go so far as to say that the positive aspect, namely, what it is, can scarcely be known without the knowledge of the negative aspect namely, what it is not and vice versu. Either is known simultaneously in and through .the other. We cannot question about the relative priority of the process of assimilation
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