The instinct of reason, however, takes, as a matter of fact, laws of that sort for truth. It is when reason does not find necessity in them that it resorts to making this distinction, and lowers the truth of the matter to the level of probability, in order to bring out the imperfect way in which truth is presented to the consciousness that as yet has no insight into the pure notion; for universality is before it there merely in the form of simple immediate universality.
Arrazoimenaren senak, ordea, egitatean halako legeak egiatzat hartzen ditu, eta haren beharrezkotasunari lotuta soilik, hark ezagutzen ez duenari, topo egiten du bereizketa horrekin, eta gauzaren egia bera egiantzekotasunera beheititzen du, egia adigai hutsaren ulermena oraindik lortu ez duen kontzientziarentzat hor aurrean dagoen modu ez-osatua izendatzeko; izan ere, orokortasuna bitartegabeko orokortasun sinple gisa soilik dago hor aurrean.