This unity of externality and essentiality repels itself from itself, for it contains reflection into itself and reflection into other, and, on the one hand, it is determination as simple, self identical and self referring self subsistent in which the negative unity, the one of the thing, is sublated; on the other hand, it is this determination over against an other, but likewise as a one which is reflected into itself and is determined in itself; it is, therefore, the matters and this thing.