Furthermore, the I does not become conscious of its own explaining as such, only of the products of this explaining; or, to express the matter somewhat differently: it is clear that perception begins from that nature that is in me and by no means from that nature that is outside of me, and that the former is what does the mediating and the latter is what is mediated, what is cognized mediately in accordance with the cognition of the former, that is, indirectly cognized in accordance with my cognition of my own nature or is posited in order to explain the former.