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Tive cognition — insofar as it dissolves [aufbebt] the Little do they realize that the description of the Absolute as only through the affirmation of its opposite, as the identity of opposites is merely negative and that the philoso- through its negation — is quite correct; but are there pher demands something entirely different for the cognition of possible definitions for which the same holds true? the Absolute, thus declaring said description as altogether in- let his notion of substance come to the fore all too it sufficient.

This is known through Spinoza. i], but in the nition, all the possible forms of expressing the Absolute are after all completely equal. The essence itself of the Abso- ner this One can be regarded now as all-ideal, now lute, which as the ideal is also immediately real, cannot be ; it arises from the combination of the categorical known through explanations, only through intuition. Only pothetical. This one and the same — not at once but a composite can be known through description. That which nner — can be regarded now as the one, now as the is simple demands to be intuited.

P. N. Land Martinus Nijhoff, 1914), vol. 1 — 13 — — 12 — opposition can be found in other concepts of re- The first form of positing absoluteness is the categoric' al; it gnition. Now, if the philosopher describes the idea can be expressed through reflective cognition negatively by a solute so that all difference contained in the non- neither-nor; it is clear that no positive cognition by any means las to be negated, then those who want to arrive at lies herein and that only the eventual productive intuition will F the Absolute from the outside understand it in the fill this void and grant positivity in said neither-nor.