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    Supports→I can represent the identity of the apperceiving subject indirectly by apprehending a unity or ordering among my representations

    If the representations I can attribute to myself possess a unity of the right kind, then apprehending that unity allows me to represent the apperceiving subject of any one of them as identical with that of any other

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    Representations(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Mental images, ideas, or thoughts that stand in for things in the world—essentially, how your mind depicts or understands reality.
    apperceiving subject(Kantian epistemology and the transcendental unity of apperception)
    The subject of representations whose identity across different representations is at issue; a subject whose intrinsic properties cannot be represented through inner sense

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    apprehending(epistemology)
    Grasping or understanding something mentally—recognizing or becoming aware of it.
    identical(whether the concept of 'human' and the concept of 'animal' are the same)
    Exactly the same as something else, not just similar but truly one and the same thing.
    unity(Derived from being by adding the notion of indivision alone.)
    Being that is undivided; the concept of being with the purely negative addition of indivision.

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    The second stage of the argument of §16 highlights another implication of the claim that “the empirical consciousness, which accompanies different representations, is dispersed and without relation to the identity of the subject” (B133): that Hume’s theory lacks the resources to account for my representation-relation to the identity of the subject; that is, this view cannot explain how I can “represent to myself the identity of the consciousness in [i.e. throughout] these representations” (B133)

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