 The expression ‘in itself’, as Bolzano explains elsewhere, is used to indicate that a term is used in its full generality, and hence that any customary tacit additions (such as thought or expressed in a language) should be suppressed (TS,§ 57, no. 2). In view of the unhelpful Kantian associations with the expression ‘in itself’, Bolzano’s expression ‘an sich’ might also be rendered as ‘as such ’ (as suggested by Jan Berg) or ‘per se’.