There is a certain scenario that I have thought of which seems to me to be logically contradictory, but I am wondering if there might be a possible way to pull it off.

It is this:

I am wondering if it is possible for something to be an alternative to something else, whilst also not lacking that other thing.

It seems to me to be logically contradictory, but I have thought of a way around this seeming contradictoriness. It is this: We all know that subjectivity is definitely very real, since we all experience reality from our own subjective perspectives. And there are lots and lots — infinite, really — things of whose existence we are unaware. So from our perspective, they don’t exist. And if existence is infinite, then there is no ultimate catalogue or list of ALL of the things that exist, anyways, due to the nature of infinity.

Let’s say there is someone who is aware of the existence of a certain thing, which we will call Thing A, and is unaware of the existence of some other thing, which we will call Thing B. Therefore, from the subjective point-of-view of someone who is unaware of the existence of Thing B, Thing A does not lack Thing B, since Thing B does not exist to be lacked in the first place! Meanwhile, from the perspective of someone else who is aware of the existence of both Thing A and Thing B, Thing A is an alternative to Thing B.

Therefore, someone could conceivably combine each of these perspectives to create a hybrid perspective in which Thing A is perceived as an alternative to Thing B, but is not perceived as lacking Thing B. Think of it as combining the alternativeness aspect of the perspective in which Thing B exists in addition to Thing A with the non-lacking aspect of the perspective in which only Thing A exists but not Thing B, while discarding the non-alternativeness aspect of the perspective in which only Thing A exists but not Thing B and the lacking aspect of the perspective in which Thing B exists in addition to Thing A.

I’d love to hear of any other possible ways to have this scenario obtain that I haven’t, as of yet, managed to think of.