I, of which one cannot even say that it is a concept, but a mere consciousness that accompanies every concept Through this I, or He, or It (the thing), which thinks, nothing further is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts, which is recognized only through the thoughts that are its predicates, and about which, in abstraction, we can never have even the least concept; because of which we therefore turn in a constant circle, since we must always al ready avail ourselves of the representation of it at all times in order to judge anything about it; we cannot separate ourselves from this incon venience, because the consciousness in itself is not even a representation distinguishing a particular object!