It is rather substance permeated by individuality, suhject in which there is individuality just as much qua individual, or qua thz's particular individual, as qua all individuals; and it is the universal which has being only as this action of all and each, and a reality in the ct that this particular consciousness knows it to be its own individual reality and the reality of aU. The pure matter in hand' itself is what was defined above as 'the category', being that is the'!, or the 'I' thatis being, but in the form ofthought which is stilJdistinguished from actual self consciousness.ere, however, the moments of actual self consciousness in so far as we call them its content (purpose, action, and reality),.