been disclosed to every thinker, even the doubting thinker, in his consciousness. And this familiarity of being is the innermost essence of truth. In the act of thinking, a consciousness [Bewußtsein] is unveiled, hence, present to itself with such immediacy that the two components of the [German] word [Bewußt and Sein] admit of no separation whatsoever. Consciousness implies not only the abstract property of being conscious but also, with equal immediacy, the reality of being conscious, the being