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Starting from the notion of an investigation is a useful approach. However, it leads to a questioning of the concept of an indice in relation to that of a trace.

For us, from the moment we assimilate the concept of trace to that of consequence, the trace precedes the indice.

All reality¹⁶ – whether physical or living¹⁷ – is the conséquence-trace of something else, and this holds true, even when humans were absent from the surface of the globe.

As we shall see later on, a conséquence-trace can be posited as existing outside the perception that humans can have of it. For example: the whole universe that we currently know nothing of, but whose existence we axiomatically assume exists.