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    It is not the case that Sartre further argues that consciousness is nothing apart from its concrete appearances, making the prototype-reflection distinction a reification rather than an explanation.

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    • 1.Consciousness exhibits structural regularities across different appearances suggesting underlying stable organizational principles.
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    • 2.Some mental capacities (like linguistic competence) show systematic patterns inexplicable by appearances alone without abstract frameworks.
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    • 3.Denying any distinction between appearance and structure makes mental pathology and development unintelligible as deviations from norms.
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    • 1.Consciousness always appears through specific acts and intentions, never as a bare abstraction independent of content.
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    • 2.Positing hidden prototype structures behind appearances violates phenomenological method by invoking unobservable entities.
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    • 3.Treating prototypes as explanatory adds no predictive or descriptive power beyond describing actual conscious manifestations.
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