Full Idea
I exist as an intelligence that is merely conscious of its faculty for combination.
Gist of Idea
I exist just as an intelligence aware of its faculty for combination
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B158)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.260
A Reaction
[plucked from a complex context!] This thought seems to have its origins in Hume's account of associations, and is a fairly accurate piece of introspection, I would say. I could think of my Self simply as the thing which unites some diverse experiences.