In itself, the object is just what it is experienced as being, hard, heavy, sweet, sonorous, agreeable or tedious and so on. But in being "there" these traits are effects, not causes. They cannot as such be used as means, and when they are set up as ends in view, we are at aloss how to secure them. For just as qualities there are no constant and definite relations which can be ascertained between them and other things.