The defect, which these surely barbarous notions place in the fact that in thinking the 'I' the latter cannot be left out as a subject, then also appears the other way around, in that the 'I' occurs only as the subject of consciousness, or in that I can use myself only as a subject, and no intuition is available by which the 'I' would be given as an object; but the concept of a thing capable of existence only as a subject does not as yet carry any objective reality with it.