This indeterminate or groundlessness is also the animality peculiar to thought, the genitality of thought: not this or that animal form but stupidity (betise). For if thought thinks only when constrained or forced to do so, if it remains stupid so long as nothing forces it to think, is it not also the existence of stupidity which forces it to think, precisely the fact that it does not think so long as nothing forces it to do so? Recall Heidegger’s statement; “what gives us most cause for thought is the fact that we do not yet think”. Thought is the highest determination, confronting stupidity as though face to face with the indeterminate which is adequate to it. Stupidity (not error) constitutes the greatest weakness of thought, but also the source of its highest power in that which forces it to think.