ABSTRACT
Existence as an existent is posited in the form of the negative unity which it essentially is. The ontological proof proposes to start from the Notion; it makes the sum total of all realities its basis and then proceeds to subsume existence, too, under reality. The thing-in-itself is the existent as the essential immediate which has resulted from the sublated mediation. This external reflection is now a relating of the things-in-themselves to one another, their reciprocal mediation as others. Transcendental idealism this external reflection is consciousness. Quality is the immediate determinateness of something, the negative itself through which being is something. Thus the property of the thing is the negativity of reflection through which Existence in general is an existent and, as simple self-identity, a thing-in-itself. Consequently property, which was supposed to constitute the relation of the self-subsistent extremes, is the self-subsistent itself.
