The thing in itself is drawn into a reflection external to it in which it has a manifold of determinations; this is the repelling of itself from itself into another thing in itself, a repelling which is its rebounding back into itself, for each thing in itself is an other only as reflected back from the other; it has its supposition not in itself but in the other, is determined only through the determinateness of the other; this other is equally determined only through the determinateness of the first.