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Just as an experience is always an experience of--of something other than the experience itself-so a thought is always a thought about-about something other than the thought itself. In this sense, a thought is always about reality, in that it is always about something real independently of the thought itself. 

A thought about reality in this sense may be true or false, depending on whether or not the something thought about is as it is thought to be. Also, a thought about reality may be not merely true but necessarily true, provided that the something thought about could not conceivably be otherwise than it is thought to be-the proof of this being that the contradictory thought is also self-contradictory and therefore not merely false, but necessarily false. 

Among such thoughts about reality as are thus proved to be necessarily true are those expressed by the following three statements:

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1. There is something concretely real, and there is something abstractly reaL
2. There is something divinely real, and there is something nondivinely real. 

Ad 1. The thought expressed by the first statement is not only true but necessarily true because the contradictory thought expressed by the statement, "There is nothing real," is also self-contradictory and therefore not merely false, but necessarily false. 

Ad 2. The thought expressed by the second statement is also necessarily true because the first statement, "There is something real," necessarily implies that the utterly abstract property of being something real that anything real must somehow instantiate also has to be real. Therefore, that there is something abstractly real is and must be as true as that there is something real, whether concretely or abstractly. But since everything is real for something, only nothing being real for nothing, anything real, either concretely or abstractly, is and must be real for something else that is also real in the same completely general sense. To be real, however, in the more specific sense of being something for which other things are and must be real _if they are anything at all, is to be not merely abstractly, but _concretely, real. Consequently, if "There is something real" expresses a thought that is necessarily true, the statement, "There is something concretely real," like the statement, "There is something abstractly real," expresses a thought that could only be true. 

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