Indicative Of What?
The seemingly profound nature of theses like M1 is linked to rather more mundane features of the language in which they are expressed: that is, to the fact that the main verb they use is often in the indicative mood. Sometimes, the latter is beefed-up with subjunctive and/or modal qualifying terms — which, incidentally, help create even more of a false impression. For example, we find Engels saying things like this: “Motion is the mode of existence of matter. Never anywhere has there been matter without motion, nor can there be. Matter without motion is just as inconceivable as motion without matter. Motion is therefore as uncreatable and indestructible as matter itself; as the older philosophy (Descartes) expressed it, the quantity of motion existing in the world is always the same. Motion therefore cannot be created; it can only be transmitted.” [Engels (1976), p.74. Bold emphases added.] “The law of the transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa[operates] in nature, in
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