Now it seems as if it follows from this that in every thing (substance) there is something that is absolutely internal and pre cedes all outer determinations, first making them possible, thus that this substratum is something that contains no more outer relations in itself, consequently that it is simple (for corporeal things are still always only relations, at least of the parts outside one another); and since we are not acquainted with any absolutely inner determinations except through our inner sense, this substratum would be not only simple, but also (ac cording to the analogy with our inner sense)