 In the Phenomenology the initial scenario of “sense certainty” that is based on the absolute opposition between the knowing subject and the object known sets the stage for a long series of configurations or models of knowledge that is aimed at demonstrating that knowledge in a complete or absolute sense can only take place in a setting where subject and object share all their respective structural features, i.e., where both, the subject and the object, have the same conceptual determinations and thus are identical. This amounts according to Hegel to the insight that if knowledge is analyzed in terms of a subject-object relation there is for knowledge (Erkennen) in the end no difference between the subject and the object or, as he is fond of saying, that there is a difference that is no difference (ein Unterschied, der keiner ist). Among other things this means for Hegel that knowledge in the strict sense is ultimately self-knowledge or a state of affairs where a subject that stands in the relation of knowing (erkennen) to an object is “in truth” related to itself, or, as he famously puts it, in the act of knowing (Erkenntnisakt) the subject “is in the other (the object) with itself (exclusively related to itself)” (im Anderen bei sich selbst sein).