The only possible way in which reason could have revealed unintentionally its secret Dialectics, falsely announced as Dogmatics, would be when it were made to ground an assertion upon a universally admitted principle, and to deduce the exact contrary with the greatest accuracy of inference from another which is equally granted.
Kasu posible bakarra, non arrazoiak bere dialektika sekretua, faltsoki dogmatikotzat ematen duena, bere gogoaren kontra erakutsiko bailuke, zerakoa izango litzateke, alegia baldin unibertsalki onartutako printzipio bati buruz afirmazio bat ezarriko balu, eta berdin onartutako beste printzipio batetik, ondorioak ateratzeko bidea zorrotz jarraituz, justu haren kontrako konklusioa aterako balu.