with the latter question (completing the way in which, as we saw earlier, extreme solutions were rendered impossible by their own desire to be absolute). Hence, the conclusion to be drawn from this is also twofold. First, the pure formal problem of metaphysics as such leads to the question of the relation between God and creature. Second, we are confronted here by an either-or: either we equate this question with the previous questions or we distinguish it from them. Since equating it with those