The idea behind the strange saying just quoted seems to be this. Kant seems to have believed that we can become conscious of only one new item at a time. Thus a group of simultaneous ‘impressions’ all arriving at the same time would be indistinguishable, “for each representation [Vorstellung], in so far as it is contained in a single moment, can never be anything but absolute unity” (A99). Kant’s use of Vorstellung, with its suggestion of synthesized, conceptualized organization, may have been u