 Cook Wilson also argued against idealism that in apprehension it is neither the case that the object exists only within the apprehending consciousness, nor that it is constituted by it: the object is independent of the apprehending consciousness. As he wrote: “the apprehension of an object is only possible through a being of the object other than its being apprehended, and it is this being, no part itself of the apprehending thought, which is what is apprehended” (SI, 74). This independence, he considered to be presupposed by the very idea of knowledge expounded above. But he further rejected the distinction between act, content and object of perception, first by negating the act-object distinction: