Classically, Substance is "a subject of predication or bearer of attributes that cannot itself be borne by anything else. [It is] an enduring substratum of change."¹ For Hegel Substance is the subsistence of semblance,² "the final unity of essence and being." (555) Substance implies Appearance all the way down. There is no mysterious "beyond" that grounds Appearance. Appearance grounds itself. Appearance manifested – or Actuality – is finally in and for itself. Substance does nothing but manifest itself and it does this by erasing itself.³