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    Reinhold illicitly hypostatizes Kant's functional unity i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The synthetic unity between subject and object in consciousness presupposes an original activity of the absolute subject

    Reinhold illicitly hypostatizes Kant's functional unity into a substantial ground, moving from epistemology to metaphysics without justification.

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    • 1.Kant explicitly limits the transcendental unity of apperception to a regulative epistemic principle, not a constitutive metaphysical entity.
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    • 2.Reinhold treats the Vorstellung as a foundational substance explaining all representation, crossing from Kant's critical limits into dogmatic metaphysics.
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    • 3.Kant warns against hypostasizing functional conditions of knowledge into things-in-themselves; Reinhold's system commits precisely this error.
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    • 1.Reinhold aims to systematize Kant's scattered remarks on unity, not abandon criticism—he seeks internal coherence within the critical project itself.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'functional' and 'substantial' may oversimplify; foundational principles necessarily have ontological import even if not traditional substances.
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    • 3.Reinhold's Vorstellung doctrine responds to genuine gaps in Kant's first Critique regarding how representation originates, requiring conceptual development rather than violation.
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