 According to Meillassoux, the attractions of fideism can be traced to what he takes to be a basic dogma of philosophical thought since Kant, which he calls correlationism. According to correlationism, thinking and being go hand in hand, such that there can be no conception of the world independent of human experience: things in themselves are thus unknowable (and on a strong reading unthinkable). Correlationists embrace finitude as part of the human condition; it is within this finitude that post-metaphysical thought, including phenomenology and analytic philosophy, operates. So understood, philosophy seeks to describe what is given in experience, but it can furnish these facts with no ultimate ground or necessity. According to post-metaphysical philosophy, the principle of sufficient reason – whatever its utility in the phenomenal world – is thus circumscribed within a more fundamental abyss of contingency.