Note 62

Here we can, however, also say :  'The laughing-capable Socrates',  suggesting now (like in the case of the difference) a necessary unity, because instead of  'the rational Socrates'  we can also say :  'the (discursively) thinking-capable Socrates'.
'Man' directly stands for the (human) dynamical law, the genotypic domain.
'Rational'  here stands (that is, it is here so meant) directly for a part of the dynamical law, and thus also refers to the genotypic domain.
'capable of laughing'  ( = ability to laugh), however, stands for a determination, here a proprium, and thus refers to the phenotypic domain. In this way the necessary twoness appears.

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