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    Hegel's claim about the identity of thinking and being could be interpreted as a version of Kant's empirical realism

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    • 1.Both Hegel and Kant characterize thinking as an activity that operates on and with concepts
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    • 2.What Hegel calls 'being' can be identified with what Kant calls 'reality', namely the empirical reality of intuited objects rather than their transcendent grounds
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    • 1.Hegel explicitly rejects Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena, whereas empirical realism depends on that very distinction to limit knowledge to appearances.
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    • 2.For Kant, empirical realism is paired with transcendental idealism; Hegel's identity of thinking and being abolishes the transcendental remainder that makes Kantian empirical realism coherent.
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    • 3.Hegel's 'being' in the Science of Logic is a pure logical category prior to any empirical intuition, not the conditioned reality Kant's empirical realism addresses.
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    • 1.Kant's empirical realism preserves a passive receptivity in intuition that constrains conceptual activity, but Hegel's identity thesis makes no room for a sensory given that is independent of thought.
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    • 2.The supporting argument's identification of Hegelian 'being' with Kantian 'empirical reality' ignores that Hegel's Phenomenology treats sense-certainty as itself already conceptually mediated, dissolving any Kantian-style passive givenness.
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    Hegel’s basic claim as to the identity of thinking and being might be said to have some initial plausibility if one takes such a claim to be a somewhat metaphorical expression of the view that in our ways of thinking about objects some conceptual elements are invariably involved. Understood along these lines, Hegel’s claim could be considered, as it often is, as nothing but a peculiar version of Kant’s empirical realism. Such an interpretation might even be suggested by the impression that Hegel
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