Note 31 — Chapter VIII

When Kant says 'this conception [i. e. the conception of the number counted] consists in the consciousness of this unity of the synthesis', he is momentarily and contrary to his usual practice speaking of a conception in the sense of the activity of conceiving a universal, and not in the sense of the universal conceived. Similarly in appealing to the meaning of Begriff (conception) he is thinking of 'conceiving' as the activity of combining a manifold through a conception.