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> Intellect created history, and history created intellect, at the same moment. Thus, you have both.

Yes, I think this is basically what Schopenhauer has to say in order to maintain consistency (in this aspect of his system, at least). Magee describes it in colorful terms as subjectivity and objectivity "free-floating" over the noumenon, if I recall correctly - but I was intersted in your point of view.

Then a question that arises is whether the concept of such reciprocal dependence between empirical reality and transcendental ideality strikes the reader as plausible rather than unconvincingly ad hoc - but maybe any philosophical system will raise such a question when pursued to its foundations.