Of course, the representation I am, which expresses the consciousness that can accompany all thinking, is that which immediately includes the existencea of a subject in itself, but not yet any cognition of it, thus not empirical cognition,.e., experi ence; for to that there belongs, besides the thought of something exist ing, intuition, and in this case inner intuition,.e., time, in regard to which the subject must be determined, for which outer objects are ab solutely requisite, so that inner experience itself is consequently only mediate and possible only through outer experience.