is just one possibility and actuality of being, because it is familiar with being as a whole, but cannot survey it in its totality. Thus the object, in its limitation, stands out against the unlimited background of a being that is ever-greater than itself. But the subject knows the form of being as such thanks to its self-consciousness, in which it attains the measure of being and can apply it to the object. Yet it is precisely when it catches sight of itself and thus of the measure of being that