The empirical synthesis, on the contrary, and the series of conditions in appearance (which are subsumed in the minor premise), is necessarily given successively and is given only in time, one member after another; consequently here I could not presuppose the absolute totality of synthesis and the series represented by it, as I could in the previous case, because there all members the series are given in them selves (without time condition), but here they are possible only through the successive regress, which is given only through one's