The Importance of Immediate Certainty

The assertion I think assumes that I compare my state at the present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to determine what it is. On account of this retrospective connection with further knowledge, it has at any rate no immediate certainty for me. For if I had not already already decided within myself what it is, by what standard could I determine whether that which is just happening is not perhaps willing or feeling? So wonderful things in this passage. At the beginning, when you think you have an immediate certainty, he links together the idea of immediate certainty with absolute knowledge and the thing in itself. He says these are all concepts which can be reduced to the absurd because we're not