[25] This title also is a misnomer due to the desire to give parallel titles to the three operations involved in knowledge. There is really only one synthesis referred to, and the title here should be 'the recognition of the synthesis in the conception'.
[26] Begriff.
[27] A. 103-4, Mah. 197-8.
[28] Cf. pp. 162-9.
[29] That the combination proceeds on a specific principle only emerges in this account of the third operation.
[30] Kant's example shows that this consciousness is not the mere consciousness of the act of combination as throughout identical, but the consciousness of it as an identical act of a particular kind.
[31] When Kant says 'this conception [i. e. the conception of the number counted] consists in the consciousness of this unity of the synthesis', he is momentarily and contrary to his usual practice speaking of a conception in the sense of the activity of conceiving a universal, and not in the sense of the universal conceived. Similarly in appealing to the meaning of Begriff (conception) he is thinking of 'conceiving' as the activity of combining a manifold through a conception.
[32] The italics are mine. He does not say 'we should not be conscious of what we are thinking as the same representation and as belonging [Greek: ktl]., and we should not be conscious of the manifold as constituting a whole.
[33] The italics are mine.
[34] There could not, of course, be two syntheses, the one being and the other not being upon a principle.