From the other side, the impulse is determined in this way: the concept is indeed the absolute certainty of itself; however, opposite its being foritself there stands its presupposition of a world that exists in itself, but one whose indifferent otherness has for the concept's certainty of itself the status of something merely unessential; the concept is therefore the impulse to sublate this otherness and, in the object, to intuit its identity with itself.