Since these correlations are what physical inquiry does know, it is fair to conclude that they are what it intends or means to know: on analogy with the legal maxim that any reasonable person intends the reasonably probable consequences of what he does. We come back again to the frequently re- peated statement that the problem which has given so much trouble to modern philosophy that of reconciling the reality of the physical object of science with the richly qualitative object of ordinary experience, is afactitious one. All that is required in order to apprehend that scientific knowledge as a mode of active operation is apotential ally of the modes of action which sustain values in existence, is to surrender the traditional notion that knowledge is possession of the inner nature of things and is the only way in which they may be experienced as they "really" are.