world is nominalistically2 divided into its parts; with the latter [i.e., rationalism], reality is hyper-realistically identified with the idea. In the former, the danger of sensualism and materialism threatens, and in the latter, that of idealism and monism. With both, the concept of truth, of “conformity of intellect and thing” [conformitas intellectus et rei], a correspondence between thinking and being, is lost. For in empiricism it falls together with the empirical, sensibly perceptible reality,
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