Tertium Organum

the world of the animal,
a comfortable habitual world, the world into 
which it was born, to which it has grown accustomed, 
the only world
it 
represents to itself as real, is crumbling away and falling into ruins all around. 
Everything that before appeared real becomes false, deceptive, fantastic, 
unreal. The sensation of the unreality of everything around must be very 
strong. 
Until such a being learns to perceive realities of another, a higher order, 
until it realizes that beyond the crumbling old world there opens up a new 
world, infinitely more beautiful - a long time must pass. Meanwhile the being
in whom new consciousness is being born must pass from one gulf of despair 
to another, from one negation to another. It must repudiate 
everything
around 
it. And only then, having repudiated everything, will the possibility of 
passing into a new life be his. 
With the gradual loss of the old world the logic of the two-dimensional 
being, or what in its case took the place of logic, will suffer constant 
violation, and its strongest sensation will be that there is 
no
logic, 
no
laws of 
any kind. 
Formerly, when it was an animal, it reasoned thus: 
This is this
 This house is mine 
That is that That house is strange 
This is not that The strange house is not mine. 
Thus a strange house and its own house an animal regards as 
different 
objects
having nothing in common. And now it will suddenly understand that 
both the 
strange
house and 
its own 
house are equally - houses. 
How will it express this in its language of representations? In all probability it 
will be unable to express it at all, because it is impossible to express concepts 
in the language of an animal. The animal will simply confuse the sensations 
of the strange house and its 

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own house. It will begin to sense dimly some 
new properties
in houses, and at the same 
time the properties which had made the strange house strange it will begin to sense less 
clearly. Simultaneously it will begin to sense 
new
properties it did not know before. As 
a result it will necessarily feel in need of some system for the generalization of these 
new properties - the need of a new logic expressing the relations of the new order of 
things. But having no concepts, it will be unable to construe the axioms of Aristotelean 
logic and will express its sense of the new order in the form of a perfectly absurd 
proposition which, nevertheless, is much nearer truth. 
This is that. 
Or else let us imagine that to an animal in whom rudiments of logic find expression 
in the 
sensations 
This is this That is that This 
is not that 
somebody tries to prove that two different objects, two houses -
its own
and 
a strange 
one -
are the same, that they represent 
the same thing,
that both are -
houses.
The 
animal will never credit their 
sameness.
For it the two houses - its own 
where it is fed, 
and the strange one 
where it is beaten
if it comes in, will remain 
totally different.
For it 
they will have nothing in common. No attempt to prove that these houses are the same 
thing will lead to anything 
until the animal senses this itself. 
Then, sensing dimly the 
idea of the sameness of two different objects and having no concepts, the animal will 
express this as something