Chapter 25 B. Phenomena I. The world of phenomena (Die Welt der Erscheinung)

§132 Everything in the phenomenal world exists in such a way that its persistence is immediately sublated, and this persistence is only a moment in the form itself; the form contains the persistence or matter within itself as its own determination. one.Thus the phenomenal thing has as its ground the form, its essence, its self-return as distinct from its immediacy, but in this way only in another form of form. Prescriptiveness is taken as its basis.Its ground is still something in the phenomenal world, so the phenomenon goes on and becomes an infinite intermediary process in which form mediates persistence, that is, non-persistence mediates persistence.This infinite mediation is at the same time a unity of self-relationships, and actual existence thus develops into a whole and a world of phenomena, a whole and a world of finitude restored to itself.