Reinhold treats the Principle of Consciousness as self-evidently certain, yet Schulze's Aenesidemus showed it relies on assumptions about representation that Reinhold never critically examines.

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Aenesidemus(as the title of Schulze's critical work): A famous book by Schulze that attacked Reinhold's philosophy by pointing out hidden assumptions and weak spots in his reasoning.
Critical examination(as what Schulze says Reinhold failed to do with his assumptions): Carefully questioning and testing something to see if it really holds up, rather than just accepting it as true.
Principle of Consciousness(Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy): The first principle of philosophy in Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy, whose purview is restricted to what can be given in consciousness.
Reinhold(the philosopher whose principle is being discussed): Karl Leonhard Reinhold was a German philosopher from the late 1700s who tried to create a solid foundation for all knowledge by starting with the idea of consciousness and representation.

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