All over Europe these days, the problem “of the real and the apparent world” gets taken up so eagerly and with such acuity–Iwould even say: shrewdness – that you really start to think and listen; and anyone who hears only a “will to truth” in the background here certainly does not have the sharpest of ears. In r are and unusual cases, some sort of will to truth might actually be at issue, some wild and adventurous streak of courage, a metaphysician’s ambition to hold on to a lost cause, that, in the end, will still prefer a handful of “certainty” to an entire wagonload of pretty possibilities.