(_γγ_) These defects, thirdly, in the conceptions of science and our ordinary conscious life _speculative thought_ effaces. It stands, therefore, in one respect in affinity with the imagination of the poet. The cognizance of reason[5] is not solely, or even mainly, concerned with contingent singularity, nor does it overlook in the phenomenal world the essence of the same. It does not rest satisfied with the differentiations and external relations proper to the conceptions and deductions of the understanding; it unites them in a free totality, which in the apprehension of our finite faculty in part fails to preserve its self-consistency, and in part is posited in a relation that possesses no synthetic unity. Pure thought, however, can have but one result, namely thoughts. It evaporates the mode of reality in that of the pure notion. And although it grasps and comprehends actual things in their essential separation and their actual existence, it does also nevertheless translate this particularity into the ideal element of the universal, in which alone thought is at home with itself. Consequently there arises, in contrast to the world of phenomena, a world that is new in this sense, that though the truth of the Real is present, it is not displayed in _reality_ itself as the power itself which gives it form and the veritable soul thereof. Thinking is simply a reconciliation of truth with reality in _Thought._ The creations and reconstruction, however, of the poet is a reconciliation under the mode of phenomenal reality itself, albeit such a _real appearance_ is merely ideally conceived.