ABSTRACT
The truth of Appearance is the essential relation, the content of which has immediate self-subsistence; simply affirmative immediacy, and reflected immediacy or self-identical reflection. Force is the negative unity into which the contradiction of whole and parts has resolved itself; the truth of that first relation. Force is the negative unity into which the contradiction of whole and parts has resolved itself; the truth of that first relation. As this immediate subsistence, force is a quiescent determinateness of the thing in general; it does not express or manifest it but is immediately an externality. This transition of each into the other is their immediate identity as substrate; but it is also their mediated identity; for it is precisely through its other that each is what it is in itself, the totality of the relation. The essential relation, in this identity of Appearance with the inner or with essence, has determined itself into actuality.
