ABSTRACT
An interesting route through epistemology can been constructed by which one can safely travel to the destination of metaphysics. It seems that the possible existence of something other than consciousness may be fulfilled in three different ways: the possibility of the existence of that which possesses awareness, but no self-awareness; the possibility of existence which is not conscious at all, or brute facticity; the possibility of nothing at all existing outside of consciousness. If one meant by fact a state of affairs which was known to be ‘a fact’, of course a scientific theory of truth would already be assumed and for such a factual existence, essence in the sense of some degree of lawfulness in the universe would already be presupposed. Facticity, with respect to its existence, does not require essence for its being; essence qua essence does not require facticity for its being.
