the 'in-itself' in its opposition to 'for-self' means at one and the same time what exists only potentially, as an inner possibility, contrary to the actuality wherein a possibility has externalized and realized itself, and actuality itself in the sense of external, immediate, 'raw' objectivity which is still opposed to subjective mediation, which is not yet internalized, rendered conscious: in this sense, the 'in-itself' is actuality in so far as it has not yet reached its notion.***
