But what distinguishes cognition from mere perception and representation is the form of the concept in general that it imparts to the content; this is done in definition and division; but since the content of the theorem proceeds The idea of cognition from the concept's moment of singularity, it consists in determinations of reality that no longer have as their relation just the simple and immediate determinations of the concept; in singularity the concept has gone over to otherness, to reality, thereby becoming idea.