The experience of the agreement between the meaning and what is itself present, meant, between the actual sense of an assertion and the self-given state of affairs, is inward evidence; the Idea of this agreement is truth, whose ideality is also its objectivity.

Every real thing, and ultimately the whole world as it exists for us in such and such a way, only exists as an actual or possible cogitatum of our own cogitatio, as a possible experiential content of our own experience; and in dealing with the content of our own life of thought and knowing, the best case being in myself, one may assume our own (intersubjective) operations for testing and proving as the pre-eminent form of evidentially grounded truth. Thus, for us, true being is a name for products of actual and possible cognitive operations, an accomplishment of cognition.