Now although the mode is as such abstract externality, indifference to qualitative as well as quantitative determinations, and nothing in the essence should depend on the external, the unessential, it is nevertheless conceded that in the many all depends on the how; but this is to concede that the mode itself essentially belongs to the substance of a thing, a very indefinite connection but one which at least implies that the externality of the mode is not all that abstract an externality after all.