XVI. Consciousness and KnowledgeThe result of this account of self-consciousness is that what we know or believe is merely what is of utility to the human race. In fact, we do not even know that it is useful. It may be that we have stupidly regarded as useful what will one day lead to the demise of humanity. The account does not oppose subject and object, which is the realm of epistemology-itself just a matter of grammar or “popular metaphysics.” Nor does it oppose appearance and thing in itself, which is a distinction we are not entitled to make.
