Resolving all reality as distinction, we must find meaning and consequence within the one principle of distinction. We observe here that the diversity of a thing being both arbitrary and fixed is in fact the essence of meaning.

In this entry we return to the view of life as naming. Having indicated some tools in the exploration of other views in this series, we can now employ them in characterizing naming by showing the relation of naming to these other views.

We consider here the thesis that the impossibility of life is what gives life possibility.

Accepting the irrational sounds contradictory, as it must, but most of us, if not all of us, already understand this and operate within irrationality's strange rules of reason, even while we pretend we don't—as also we must.

The alternates to what we think are restrictions on what can exist, are in fact very real and not restricted from existence at all.

Are we, as individuals, alone in the universe? For some, first appearances of life as distinction leave us as the only one accountable for the state of affairs. For some this theory doesn't resolve conflict, it creates it.

Why this, why now, why? Common questions when we are faced with seemingly arbitrary facts. When circumstances seem particular yet not compelled by some organizing principle, we become wary that we don't understand all at play.

Is magic real? Being defined as the supernatural, it clearly is not natural, and so no, it is not real. But with contradictions present in so many very real distinctions in our lives, we might expect the magical to be present in a very real sense.