Johannes became discouraged listening to different philosophers. It is a particularly difficult chapter. He had to search out doubt's ideal possibility in consciousness . This, of course, had to remain the same, however different the occasioning phenomenon was, since it, without itself being explained by the phenomenon, explained the effect of the phenomenon. He then sought to orient himself in consciousness as it is in itself, as that which explains every specific consciousness, yet without being itself a specific consciousness.
Immediacy is precisely indeterminateness .
Immediately, therefore, everything is true , but this truth is untruth the very next moment, for in immediacy everything is untrue . Unlike Descartes, Kierkegaard was anxious to ground philosophical truth in something more concrete than human consciousness. One can explain the effect of a phenomenon, if one cannot explain the phenomenon itself. Utter reality cannot be absolutely determined in itself. Language's description of it is ideal, and not the thing itself.