Our claim, therefore, is that only an intellect can be thought of as free, and that merely by grasping itself as an intellect it becomes free; for only thereby does it subsume its own being under something higher than any being, that is, under a concept To this someone might object as follows: even in our own argumentation in the preceding section we presupposed absoluteness as a being, as something posited; the reflection that is now supposed to accomplish such great things is itself quite obviously conditioned by this same absoluteness, which it has as its object; without presupposing some object it is not a reflection at all, and without presupposing this particular object it is not this particular reflection.