and knows that the Thing lacks self subsistence, that it is essentially only abeing for an other; Of, to give complete expression to the relationship,i.e to what alone constitutes the nature of the object here, the Thing counts for it as something that exists on its own acpou'!i; it clares sense certainty to be absolute truth, but this being:for seif is itself declared to be a moment that merely vanishes and passes over into its opposite, into a being that is at the disposal of an 'other'.