 In his memoirs, Hans-Georg Gadamer calls Natorp, his doctoral supervisor, a “Methodenfanatiker” (Gadamer 1977: 62). By this Gadamer means that Natorp, for most of his career, focused on the methodical aspect of thinking to the point of reducing thinking to method. To understand this riddling statement, one must take into account Natorp’s interpretation of the word, “method”. He writes: