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Fernando Pessoa

Consider the analytic (?) judgement a priori:

Consider the analytic (?) judgement a priori: «Being exists», and its very extraordinary nature. This is not even an analytic subject without increase or decrease. «Being is Being» is the logical statement of the question.

 

Consider these:

1. Bodies are extended.

2. Bodies are weighty.

s. Being is being.

 

Analytic judgements a posteriori no one makes or thinks it necessary to make.

Kant’s great question: «How are synthetic judgements a priori possible?»

Can we say this, for instance: «Being is eternal?»<Being_is_eternal?>

To prove that we have to take the 2 notions of Being and of not‑Being and to oppose them in argument. We say: «If Being began it came either from Being or from not‑Being. If from not‑Being, it is also eternal, because from nothing nothing can come.»

1906?

Textos Filosóficos . Vol. I. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968 (imp. 1993).

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