But the same subject, who on the other hand is also conscious of himself as a thing in itself, also considers his existence insofar as it does not fall under conditions of time, and considers himself as determinable only by laws that he on his gives to himself through reason; and in this existence of his there is for him nothing antecedent to the determination of his will, but every action and in general every determination of his existence varying in conformity with inner sense, even the entire sequence of his existen as a being of sen is in the consciousness of his intelligible existence nothing but a consequence, and is never to be viewed as a determining basis of his causality as a noumenon.m