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--- a/00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ As the founders of the Forerunning republic said, "_When in the Course of human
 which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
 Reason entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation._"
 
-Existence exists and the act of grasping this implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness.
+Existence exists and the act of grasping this implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness to perceive it.
 These two -- existence and consciousness -- are axioms humankind cannot escape; these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action one undertakes, in any
 part of one's knowledge. Whatever one knows, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. We hold these axioms to be self-evident and self-reaffirming: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**.