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The ___ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ___, __othing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts_. __onsciousness in itself (is) not so much a representation_as it is a form of representation in general._ The __ think_ is __he form of apperception, which clings to every experience and precedes it.__ant grasps the phenomenal content of the ___ correctly in the expression __ think_, or__f one also pays heed to including the __ractical person_ when one speaks of __ntelligence___n the expression __ take action_. In Kant__ sense we must take saying ___ as saying __ think._ Kant tries to establish the phenomenal content of the ___ as *res cogitans*. If in doing so he calls this ___ a __ogical subject_, that does not mean that the ___ in general is a concept obtained merely by way of logic. The ___ is rather the subject of logical behavior, of binding together. __ think_ means __ bind together_. All binding together is an _*I* bind together_. In any taking-together or relating, the ___ always underlies__he _οκείμενον [hypokeimenon; subjectum; subject]. The *subjectum* is therefore __onsciousness in itself_, not a representation but rather the __orm_ of representation. That is to say, the __ think_ is not something represented, but the formal structure of representing as such, and this formal structure alone makes it possible for anything to have been represented. When we speak of the __orm_ of representation, we have in view neither a framework nor a universal concept, but that which, as εἶδο [eidos], makes every representing and everything represented be what it is. If the ___ is understood as the form of representation, this amounts to saying that it is the __ogical subject_.Kant__ analysis has two positive aspects. For one thing, he sees the impossibility of ontically reducing the ___ to a substance; for another thing, he holds fast to the ___ as __ think_. Nevertheless, he takes this ___ as subject again, and he does so in a sense which is ontologically inappropriate. For the ontological concept of the subject *characterizes not the Selfhood of the ___ qua Self, but the self-sameness and steadiness of something that is always present-at-hand*. To define the ___ ontologically as _*subject*_ means to regard it as something always present-at-hand. The Being of the ___ is understood as the Reality of the *res cogitans*."__rom_Being and Time_. Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, pp. 366-367