But this mediation, which first raises the accidental to necessity, is the manifested reference; the concept is not the abyss of formless substance, or the necessity which is the inner identity of things or circumstances different from each other and reciprocally constricting; rather, as absolute negativity, it is the informing and creative principle, and since the determination is not as limitation but is just as much simply sublated as determination, is positedness, so is the reflective shine the appearance as appearance of the identical.