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    It is not the case that Husserl's transcendental ego and Sartre's pre-reflective cogito demonstrate that the minimal self is constituted through temporal self-givenness, not intersubjectivity.

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    • 1.Sartre himself later emphasized that consciousness is always situated in factical, intersubjective contexts that shape pre-reflective self-awareness.
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    • 2.Even minimal temporal self-givenness presupposes linguistic and conceptual frameworks that are fundamentally social and historically constituted.
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    • 3.Empirical evidence from developmental psychology shows infants lack stable self-constitution until intersubjective mirroring and recognition occurs.
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    • 1.Pre-reflective self-awareness occurs prior to any social encounter, suggesting temporal consciousness grounds ego-constitution independently.
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    • 2.Husserl's transcendental reduction isolates the ego's self-givenness from empirical social relations, revealing a self-constituting temporal core.
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    • 3.The unity of consciousness across time—not recognition by others—explains how the minimal self persists as a coherent subject of experience.
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