 It might nonetheless be thought that Wolff’s philosophy itself does not reflect this engagement with empiricism. Indeed, Wolff himself gives this impression when he states in the German Metaphysics that experience is opposed to reason such that they constitute “two paths to truth” (GM: §372), and while the path of experience might suffice for the concerns of ordinary life, Wolff makes clear that the philosopher cannot rest content with it but must use reason to press beyond what experience offers. That this is so is reflected in Wolff’s distinction between “common knowledge or cognition [gemeine Erkäntniss]” and “the cognition of a philosopher [Erkänntniss eines Welt-Weisen]” which he first offers in the German Logic: