Something is better than nothing, to be sure, and everything is generally out of reach. You don't have to be Everyman in order to be a someone, after all. Everyone is a special someone to somebody sometime, we optimistically think. Yet who could, or would, be everything to anyone? Even an exemplar is said to be something else; the alpha and omega of all (like) things it is not. That was some show, wasn't it?
A sum is, ironically, the totality of several somethings, themselves partial and exclusive. The Latin sum, 'I am', in Descartes' dictum, sums up the perfect partiality of his imagined, conscious something called the self. Let's edit Descartes thus, to admit of some constituent plurality: cogito ergo some. This grounds us; think of the proverbial salt. Life's better this way.
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