a) that the subject ought to be something; its universal nature has posited itself as the self subsistent concept; (b) that particularity is something constituted or an external concrete existence, not only because of its immediacy, but because it expressly differs from its self subsisting universal nature; its external concrete existence, for its part, because of this self subsistence of the concept, is also indifferent with respect to the universal and may or may not conform to it.