of his representations: out of one representation he can only deduce another, and he is never able to bridge the chasm between thinking and being by reasoning. Neither can voluntarism provide any service here. From the standpoint of idealism, the opposition that the will encounters turns the will itself into a representation. And will and opposition are then not two independent realities from my consciousness but two acts of consciousness [bewustzijnsacten] that stand in a certain relationship to
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