The metaphysical frame behind everyday reality consists of a series of antinomies: freedom and determinism, real and ideal, being and becoming, etc. All are irresolvable and in particular do not yield to any kind of three-valued synthetic logic or to hard-headed commonsensicalism, all of which only transform the terms of reference but leave the essential oppositions intact. All of these are false dichotomies but this cannot be grasped by starting out from any of them. It is something else again, as if suddenly projected into a space perpendicular to all of them at once in a movement that shatters everything, including the very one who would experience such a shift.