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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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