The two sides of the whole, condition and ground, are thus, on the one hand, indifferent and unconditioned with respect to each other: the one as the non referred to side, to which the connecting reference in which it is the condition is external; the other as the connecting reference, or form, for which the determinate existence of the condition is only a material, something passive whose form, such as it possesses on its own account, is unessential.