Now inasmuch as in a first moment synthetic cognition passes over from abstract identity to relation, or from being to reflection, it is not the absolute reflection of the concept that the latter recognizes in its subject matter; the reality that the concept gives itself is the next stage, namely the said identity in diversity as such, an identity that equally is, therefore, still inner, and only necessity; it is not the subjective identity existing for itself, hence not as yet the concept as such.