The lasagna disappears when Bordiga eats it, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the empty plate comes, the lasagna may be explained to be a false form of Bordiga's existence, for the empty plate appears as its true nature in place of the lasagna. These stages are not merely differentiated; they supplant one another as being incompatible with one another. But the ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes them at the same time moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and this equal necessity of all moments constitutes alone and thereby the life of the whole.