Note 350

In fact, Life can be understood quite well, indeed best of all other things, because we ourselves do experience Life. We, apparently, have cured of it [subjectivism], but it would be of great value to complement our present  methodic  cognition, which we admittedly owe to the "detachment" [i.e. stepping back from ourselves and observe the world around us], with a subjectively instinctive basis of experience, which is as a residue present anyhow, [this presence] demonstrated by the fact that newly acquired knowledge must also be  believed,  if it is to remain.

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