The word hypothesis has now a somewhat different significance from that given it by Newton. We are now accustomed to understand by hypothesis all tho… - Bernhard Riemann

I. Thesis. Finite elements of Space and Time. Antithesis. Continuity.

It is absurd to assume that upon the rigid earth-crust the organic originated from the inorganic. In order to explain the nascence of the lowest organisms on the earth-crust, one must assume an already existing organising principle or a thought-process, under conditions that would render organic combinations impossible. We must accordingly assume that these conditions are valid only for the life-process in the actual state of the earth's surface, and only so far as we can explain them may we estimate the possibility of life-processes under other conditions.

Thesis. Finite, Representable. Antithesis. Infinite, System of Notions lying at the limit of the representable.