There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are “immediate certainties”; for example, “I think,” or as the superstition of Schopenhauer put it, “I will”; as though knowledge here got hold of its object purely and nakedly as “the thing in it-self,” without any falsification on the part of either the subject or the object But that “immediate certainty,” as well as “absolute knowledge” and the “thing in itself,” involve a contradictio in adjecto,21 I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free our-selves from the seduction of words!
the idea had its place but the execution wasn't totally done right.
