So, if I now wanted, according to idealistic principles, to base this de facto self evident truth, this irresistible belief, on some absolute self evident truth, that is, on the absolute clarity which my thoughts have for me; if I tried to find in myself a creative thought which bodied forth the framework of the world or illumined it through and through, I should once more prove unfaithful to my experience of the world, and should be looking for what makes that experience possible instead of looking for what it is.