[24] Cf. A. 113, Mah. 205; A. 121-2, Mah. 211-12; and Caird, i. 362-3. For a fuller account of these presuppositions, and for a criticism of them, cf. Ch. IX, p. 219 and ff. 3. Kant introduces the third operation, which he calls 'the synthesis of recognition in the conception',[25] as follows: [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'. "Without consciousness that what we are thinking is identical with what we thought a moment ago, all reproduction in the series of representations would be in vain. For what we are thinking would be a new representation at the present moment, which did not at all belong to the act by which it was bound to have been gradually produced, and the manifold of the same would never constitute a whole, as lacking the unity which only consciousness can give it. If in counting I forget that the units which now hover before my mind have been gradually added by me to one another, I should not know the generation of the group through this successive addition of one to one, and consequently I should not know the number, for this conception consists solely in the consciousness of this unity of the synthesis." "The word 'conception'[26] might itself lead us to this remark. For it is this _one_ consciousness which unites the manifold gradually perceived and then also reproduced into one representation. This consciousness may often be only weak, so that we connect it with the production of the representation only in the result but not in the act itself, i. e. immediately; but nevertheless there must always be one consciousness, although it lacks striking clearness, and without it conceptions, and with them knowledge of objects, are wholly impossible."[27] [26] _Begriff._ [27] A. 103-4, Mah. 197-8.