Parent was attempting to attempting to correlate a classical epistemological exercise with a much more modern epistemological quip about the continuity of moder

Parent was attempting to attempting to correlate a classical epistemological exercise with a much more modern epistemological quip about the continuity of modern experience, informed by (among others) neo-Hegelianism, philosophical realism, and proto-pragmatism (similar to James and Spinoza). In other words, yes, they are the same... in the way a pebble is a mountain.