Kant's Critique of Pure Reason establishes that the unity of apperception—'I think' accompanying all representations—is a necessary condition for any comparative judgment across representations.

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Apperception(Kantian epistemology): Self-consciousness; in Kant's usage, the unity of self-awareness that is itself conditioned by the categories of pure understanding.
Comparative judgment(as what Kant argues requires the unity of apperception): The act of thinking about two or more things together and noticing how they're similar, different, or related to each other.
Critique of Pure Reason(as the specific work where Kant discussed these ideas): Kant's major philosophical book (published 1781) examining the limits of human knowledge and arguing that our minds actively structure our experience of the world.
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.

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