Consequently, although the subject matter that is for the concept is here also a given subject matter, it does not enter into the subject as affecting it, or as confronting it with a constitution of its own as subject matter, or as a pictorial representation; on the contrary, the subject transforms it into a conceptual determination; it is the concept which is the active principle in it which therein refers itself to itself, and, by thus giving itself its reality in the object, finds truth.