The identity of the consciousness of Myself in different times is there fore only a formal condition of my thoughts and their connection, but it does not prove at all the numerical identity of my subject, in which de spite the logical identity of the I a change can go on that does not allow it to keep its identity; and this even though all the while the identical sounding I is assigned to it, which in every other state, even in the re placement of the subject, still keeps in view the thought of the previous subject, and thus could also pass it along to the following one.