By Tomas Portillo
Our pursuit of knowledge in itself is bound by knowledge being an object for us. We have no access to real truth, just as we perceive it. However, we continually strive for a sort of objective knowledge. We question whether or not the standard by which knowledge is held to is an essence within us. It holds that we know things as far as their limits (as with the example of a seed that we know from experience to become a tree), but that is not the
Consciousness provides its own standards; differences in standards arise in consciousness itself. We must therefore question standards that have arisen. We note that the relation between notion/concept (our idea of a thing for us) to object (a thing in itself) is similar to the relation of being-for-another and being-in-itself. In our pursuit of knowledge, knowing is the object. We observe it through consciousness.
We can only ever observe consciousness at work. Consciousness itself changes the view of an object from what it was intrinsically to what it is for consciousness. A standard/criterion is altered when the standard itself fails the test- such as the observation of consciousness. We will watch consciousness grow and see it experience disappointment. We will gain from seeing what shapes of consciousness get right and even their positive untruths.
The true is being-for-it of this in-itself (this = consciousness).