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    Challenges→Hegel's claim about the identity of thinking and being could be interpreted as a version of Kant's empirical realism

    Kant's empirical realism preserves a passive receptivity in intuition that constrains conceptual activity, but Hegel's identity thesis makes no room for a sensory given that is independent of thought.

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    Hegel(as the main philosopher referenced in this statement)
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher (1770-1831) who argued that reality and human thought develop through a process of contradiction and resolution, constantly evolving toward greater understanding.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    conceptual activity(as the thinking process that Kant believed was constrained by sensory input)
    The mental work your mind does to organize, categorize, and make sense of raw sensations into meaningful thoughts and ideas.
    empirical realism(Kant identifies empirical realism with his own transcendental idealism)
    The view that space, time, causation, and the other categories are real features of the empirical world of experience — Kant's term for the complement to transcendental idealism within his system.

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    identity thesis(Used to characterize a specific commitment of moral naturalism being criticized in the passage)
    The claim associated with moral naturalism that moral judgments are identical to a certain class of inductive inferences
    intuition(Kant, Prolegomena 4:286)
    In Kant's usage, immediate sensory or spatial awareness that is not reducible to conceptual thought; the mode by which the distinction between right and left is apprehended.
    passive receptivity(as a feature of intuition in Kant's theory)
    The capacity to simply receive or take in information from the world through your senses, without actively creating or changing it.
    sensory given(as something Hegel denies can exist independently of thought)
    Raw information that comes to you directly through your senses (sight, touch, smell, etc.) before your mind interprets or makes sense of it.

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