1 The essay, co-translated by H.S. Harris and Walter Cerf, thus might have been rendered more perspicuously, without the misleading initial definite article, as “Differentiation within Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy.” Hoffmann remarks in a note that “it was the publisher who inserted the definite article. Since Hegel had not used a definite article, Harris had intended to render the title without it, but at the publisher's insistence he relented, since he felt at the time that he did not have a strong argument for leaving it out” (260-1, note 9).

2 This is also the advance that John McCumber's essay, to be discussed below, attributes to Hegel over Hamann.

3 James Crooks' essay, discussed above, also clearly expresses the view that Hegelian truth resides entirely in the speculative process, to which particular theoretical results are subordinate.