In other words, if a Straightjacket is the kind of thing that comes and goes, we will be left with no reason for expecting its continuation. But have we any conception of something whose existence is not subject to time and change? Can we even touch it, let alone embrace it, with our understandings? Aren’t we once more left with Wittgenstein’s dire saying,’ [A] nothing would serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said’? Or in Hume’s words,
