Note 1 — V OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD
Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoernlé translation
Whether he who believes that he recognises immediate experience to be a dream, postulates nothing behind this dream, or whether he relates his ideas to actual things, is immaterial. In both cases life itself must lose all scientific interest for him. However, whereas for those who believe that the whole of accessible reality is exhausted in dreams, all science is an absurdity, for those who feel compelled to argue from ideas to things, science consists in studying these things-in-themselves. The first of these theories of the world may be called Absolute Illusionism, the second is called Transcendental Realism1 by its most rigorously logical exponent, Eduard von Hartmann.