An isolated object, taken in itself, independent of every interaction, has no particular state. At most we can attribute to it a kind of probabilistic disposition to manifest itself in one way or another.102 But even this is only an anticipation of future phenomena, a reflection of phenomena past, and only and always relative to another object. The conclusion is revolutionary. It leaps beyond the idea that the world is made up of a substance that has attributes, and forces us to think about everything in terms of relations.103
