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    Challenges→A priori synthesis by a priori concepts is required to explain how a subject can represent the identity of its apperceptive consciousness across different elements of the manifold of intuition.

    If the identity of consciousness across the manifold is a formal requirement on self-ascription rather than a produced synthesis, then a priori concepts are unnecessary—only coherent predication is required.

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    Coherent predication(what might be needed instead of complex a priori concepts)
    Making statements about things in a way that makes logical sense and doesn't contradict itself; saying things that fit together consistently.
    Formal requirement(distinguishing between logical necessity and empirical facts)
    A rule or condition that must be logically true by definition, rather than something that needs to be proven by observation.
    Identity of consciousness(central to understanding how we remain the same person)
    The idea that your conscious experience stays 'you' and remains continuous over time, even as you change and have different experiences.
    Synthesis(Hegel's speculative moment)
    A new concept that unifies two earlier, opposed concepts, arising as the positive result of their contradiction.

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    a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    manifold(Kant's account of cognition in the Critique of Pure Reason)
    The raw, unstructured multiplicity of content given in intuition prior to conceptual unification by the understanding
    self-ascription(Used in the context of how one develops a sense of being a unified conscious subject)
    The act of attributing experiences to oneself as their subject

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