the method which considers things not according to any relation, not as becoming and passing away, in short, not according to one of the four forms of the principle of sufficient reason; but, on the contrary, just that which remains when all that belongs to the form of knowledge proper to that principle has been abstracted, the inner nature of the world, which always appears unchanged in all the relations, but is itself never subject to them, and has the Ideas of the world as its object or material.
gauzak ez ezein harremanen arabera, ez bilakatzen eta iraungitzen direnak bezala, hitz batean, arrazoiaren printzipioaren lau taxuetako baten arabera kontsideratzen dituena bezala; baizik alderantziz printzipio horren arabera aztertua izan ondoren gelditu dena hartzen du objektutzat, harreman guztietan agertzen dena, baina horien mendean ez dagoena, munduaren esentziarekiko horren ideiekiko beti berdina.