It is all the more inconsequent to cling to them as abstract qualities, since in the syllogism it is their connections that constitute the essential element, and the inherence and the subsumption already imply that the singular, since the universal inheres in it, is itself universal, and the universal, since it subsumes the singular, is itself singular; more to the point, the syllogism expressly posits this very unity as the middle term, and its determination is mediation itself, that is, the concept determinations no longer have, as they did in judgment, their reciprocal externality for their basis, but rather their unity.