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    It is not the case that The Abhidharma reduction of persons to skandhas explicitly denies any functional analog to transcendental apperception, leaving no locus for the 'accompanying' unification Kant identifies.

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    • 1.Skandhas themselves may provide functional unity through causal interdependence without requiring a Kantian transcendental subject as their basis.
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    • 2.Kant's apperception and Buddhist skandha doctrine address different metaphysical questions; absence of one concept doesn't negate the other's coherence.
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    • 3.Abhidharma texts describe mental factors (cetasikas) that coordinate skandhas, potentially serving unification roles analogous to transcendental apperception.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental apperception requires a unified subject that persists across representations, which Buddhist skandha theory explicitly rejects.
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    • 2.If persons are bundles of skandhas without a substratum, there is no transcendental ground capable of the 'I think' that must accompany all representations.
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    • 3.Buddhist phenomenology describes moment-by-moment aggregation without continuity of an experiencing subject, contradicting Kant's unifying apperception.
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