 and later, in his oft-used metaphor, Wolff characterizes philosophical cognition itself as a “marriage of reason and experience [connubium rationis et experientiae]” (LL: §1232; cf. Cataldi Madonna 2001). Ideally, then, Wolff construes reason and experience as converging toward a common end rather than constituting divergent paths, and the philosopher is warned against pursuing one at the expense of the other (DP: §11). In this way, Wolff’s rationalism clearly separates itself from the spirit of classical rationalism.