| Thus we are neither adherents of phenomenism, nor of substantialism. |
| The extreme of substantialism, whereby one asserts oneself, goes hand in hand with the extreme of nihilism, whereby one negates the other. |
| A third type of substantialism amounts to the theory that there is a plurality of ultimately irreducible individual souls rather than just a single divine one. |
| That tradition was of course heir to the substantialism that for long had marked historical thinking, but it developed it and made it into a hermeneutical principle. |
