There are still harmless self-observers who believe in the existence of “immediate certainties,” such as “I think,” or the “I will” that was Scho- penhauer’s superstition: just as if knowledge had been given an object here to seize, stark naked, as a “thing-in-itself,” and no falsification took place from either the side of the subject or the side of the object. But I will say this a hundred times: “immediate certainty,” like “absolute knowledge” and the “thing in itself ” contains a contradictio in adjecto. For once and for all, we should free our selves from the seductio n of words!