The penetrating “perhaps” that belief whispers in man’s ear in every place and in every age does not point to any uncertainty within the realm of practical knowledge; it simply queries the absoluteness of this realm and relativizes it, reminding man that it is only one plane of human existence and of existence in general, a plane that can only have the character of something less than final. In other words, we have now reached a point in our reflections where it becomes evident that there are two basic forms of human attitude or reaction to reality, neither of which can be traced back to the
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