  Other analogies, although not explicitly mentioned by Nishida, nevertheless serve to clarify his logic at least in part.  A model of interpretation is relevant: every text has its context, which in turn may be made a text or thematized by appealing to a further context.  There is no final context that can be specified without referring to yet another context. For Nishida this relation would not be settled by invoking the notion of an infinite regress; rather it indicates the necessity of an ultimate context of a different order, one that allows the distinction between a specific text and its context. This ultimately unspecifiable context in Nishida’s terms is called absolute nothingness.  The analysis of successful physical theories provides yet another model. Each of Nishida’s successive topoi serves as a level of analysis that resolves contradictions on less comprehensive levels, as Einstein’s relativity theory encompasses Newtonian theory and resolves contradictions in it. But for Nishida the final level that holds differences or contradictions together is ultimately unanalyzable absolute nothingness. Despite Nishida’s relative ignorance of modern logic and his identification of predicates with universals, we may also find parallels to his logic of place in mathematical logic: an axiomatic system is a topos that, according to Gödel’s theorem, is not self-explanatory or self-generating since it contains undecidable propositions, and there is no final system with a self-explanatory foundation. Nishida’s absolute nothingness is the place beyond discursive determination. Discourse analysis also suggests parallels: it analyzes how a discourse is framed or directed to an audience with certain interests, but the analysis too has its own frame that does not terminate in any definitive or final frame.  Foundationalist theories of knowledge and reality might seem to provide a model of Nishida’s logic of place, but in Nishida the metaphor of grounding gives way to that of placing, locating, or encompassing, and in any case the ultimate place is more an Abgrund or void than a positive ground.