never recognize that historical beings might possess a completely different mode of being (one grounded on Da-sein), because historiology would then have to renounce itself (on the essence of history, cf. Überlegungen VI, pp. 33ff., 68f., 74f.). For, as science, historiology possesses for its pre-established operational domain that which is obvious, that which unconditionally conforms to an average intelligibility, and this intelligibility is demanded by the essence of science as the instituting of correct findings within the domination and regulation of all objects for the sake of their usefulness and breeding.

10. Insofar as the only task appropriate to "science" is the complete investigation of its subject area, science is intrinsically drawn to giving ever-greater precedence to the approach and the procedures versus the subject area itself. The decisive question for science as such is not the determination of the essential character of the beings themselves from which a subject area is derived; instead, the question is merely whether this or that procedure can lead to a "finding," i.e., to a result of the investigation. What is dominant is the focus on the provision and instituting of "results." The results—and of course their immediate appropriation into use—guarantee the correctness of the investigation, and this scientific correctness then counts as the truth of an act of knowledge. Science must seek confirmation of its own necessity precisely in its appeal to "results" and their usefulness. (In essence, it makes no difference whether "science" thereby justifies itself as a "cultural value," or as "service to the people," or as "politicized science," for which reason then all justifications and "meaning-conferrals" of this kind blend into one another and demonstrate more and more that they belong together despite the apparent antagonism.) Only a thoroughly modern (i.e., "liberal") science can be "people's science." Only modern science—on the basis of its giving precedence to procedures over the matter and to correctness of judgments over the truth of the beings—allows the needs of the moment to regulate its switching over to various goals (the effectuation of strict materialism and technicism in Bolshevism; the deployment in the four-year plan; the use of science for political education). "Science" is here in all respects the same, and precisely through the adoption of these various goals it becomes ever more uniform, i.e., "international."

Because "science" is not knowledge but, instead, the instituting of correct findings within a region of explanation, then from the adoption of new goals the "sciences" also necessarily undergo in each case new "stimulation," with the help of which they can at the same time talk themselves out of every possible threat