ABSTRACT
Appearance is the existent mediated by its negation, which constitutes its subsistence. This negation is, indeed, another self-subsistence; but this is equally essentially a sublated self-subsistence. Existence as immediacy in general, is likewise a self-identity of matter and form which is indifferent to its form determinations and therefore content; it is thinghood with its properties and matters. This identity, the substrate of Appearance, which constitutes law, is Appearance's own moment; it is the positive side of essentiality by virtue of which Existence is Appearance. The relation is, therefore, specifically this, that the world in and for itself is the inversion of the manifested world. Thus the world of Appearance and the essential world are each in themselves the totality of self-identical reflection and reflection into another, or of being in and for self and Appearance.
