How do we know that nations exist? Mangled bodies imply the existence of some “thing” in the name of which the frenzied activity occurred, testifying to the reality of that thing.

People imagine that if such radical acts of destruction took place, they must have occurred based on something real. We can't imagine that such radical acts could have occurred in the name of no-thing.

The loss of limbs confer reality on the entity in the name of which the limbs were lost.