ABSTRACT
The various ways, in which things have been taken up, have all failed to give more than mere appearance. But that which does not attain to internal unity, has clearly stopped short of genuine reality. The author proposes to adopt another way of criticism, which perhaps may be plainer. The appearances after all, being what one experience, must be what matters for all. They are surely the one thing which, from the nature of the case, can possess human value. The assertion of a reality falling outside knowledge is quite nonsensical. People have to enquire into the nature of appearance. And whatever exists must belong to reality. That is also quite certain, and its denial once more is self-contradictory. For appearance has a positive character which is indubitable fact, and, however much this fact may be pronounced appearance, it can have no place in which to live except reality.
