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    In sense experience, consciousness of the subject is dete... — Carmelics
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    In sense experience, consciousness of the subject is determined by the activity of the object, making the object a subject in its own right.

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    • 1.In thinking, the object is determined by the thinking activity of the subject.
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    • 2.Sense experience operates inversely to thinking.
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    • 3.Therefore, in sense experience, the subject's consciousness is determined by the object's activity.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrates that perception is always structured by a priori categories the subject imposes, so the object never purely determines consciousness.
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    • 2.What Feuerbach calls the object's 'activity' is itself filtered through subjective forms of intuition like space and time, undermining the object's independent causal role.
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    • 3.Granting the object subject-status conflates causal efficacy with intentional agency, a category error Kant's critical philosophy specifically rules out.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenology shows that intentionality is always a directedness of consciousness toward objects, meaning subjects actively constitute the object's sense rather than passively receiving it.
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    • 2.The noematic content of perception—what the object means to consciousness—is inseparable from the subject's constitutive acts, so the object cannot be said to independently determine experience.
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    If philosophical thought is to avoid remaining “a prisoner of the ego”, Feuerbach insists, it “must begin with its antithesis, with its alter ego” (AP 146/138). The antithesis of thought is sensation. Whereas in thinking it is the object that is determined by the thinking activity of the subject, in sense experience, he maintains, without much argument and with apparently little concern for the epistemological problems that preoccupied the British empiricists and Kant, the consciousness of the s
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