Instead of troubling ourselves with such useless ideas and locutions about cognition as 'an instrument for getting hold of the Absolute, or as 'a medium through which we view the truth' (relationships which surely, in the end, are what all these ideas of a cognition cut offfrom the Absolute, and an Absolute separated from cognition, amount to); instead of putting up with excuses which create the incapacity of Science by assuming relationshi ps of this kind in order to be exempt from the hard work of Science, while at the same time giving the impression of working seriously and zealously; instead of bothering to refute all these ideas, we could reject them out of hand as adventitious and arbitrary, and the words associated with them like 'absolute', 'cognition', 'objective' and 'subjective', and count.