From the first he was a twy-minded man--one of those divided natures which are inclined almost equally to two quite opposite careers.

从一，就是一个思想矛盾的人——一种性格分裂的人，几乎同样倾从两种完全相反的职业。

Thus the law of contradiction is about things, and not merely about thoughts; and although belief in the law of contradiction is a thought, the law of contradiction itself is not a thought, but a fact concerning the things in the world.

因此，矛盾律是关的，而不仅仅是关思想的；尽管相信矛盾律是一种思想，但矛盾律本身并不是思想，而是关世界的实。