The key to the answer is to be found in adistinction between operations overtly performed (or imagined to be performed) and operations symbolically executed. When we act overtly, consequences ensue ;if we do not like them, they are nevertheless there in existence. We are entangled in the outcome of what we doj we have to stand its consequences. We shall put aquestion that is so elementary that it may seem silly. How can we have an end in view with- out having an end, an existential result, in fact?