Fernando Pessoa
What, for instance, is a colour apart from a thing?
What, for instance, is a colour apart from a thing? I mean does the true colour of the sky have a colour in itself? No, because the moment that colour becomes a colour in itself it ceases to be that colour.
-3, -2, -1 0 1, 2, 3.
The descendant series means to say there is a lack of that which quantity represents.
Does the descendant series represent anything material? What is its scientific origin?
1907?
Textos Filosóficos . Vol. II. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968.
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