but, apart from the question as to what the real truth about this origin may be, which we will leave until later, it is a certainly ascertained fact that in the apparential order of things, in the life of beings who are endowed with a certain more or less cloudy faculty of knowing and perceiving, or who at any rate appear to act as if they were so endowed, knowledge is exhibited to us as bound up with the necessity of living and of procuring the wherewithal to maintain life.
baina existentziaren errai sakonetan hartaz dagoena oraingoz geroxeagorako utzirik, gauza jakina eta egiazkoa da, gauzen itxurazko ordenan, nola edo halako ezaguera edo oharmen lainotsuren batez hornituriko izakiengan, edo beren egintzengatik halakoaz horniturik daudela ematen dutenengan, ezaguera, bizitzeko eta hori lortzeko janaria eskuratzeko beharrari loturik agertzen zaigula.