And consciousness, in which givenness and likewise the pure act of seeing things occur, is once again not something like a mere box in which things given simply are; rather, seeing consciousness apart from mere attentiveness is just acts of thought formed in certain ways, and things, which are not acts of thought, are nonetheless constituted in them, come to givenness in them and, as a matter of principle, show themselves to be what they are only when they are thus constituted.