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    The Elementary Philosophy cannot account for the ground of the objective matter of representation.

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    • 1.Reinhold's Principle of Consciousness defines representation through the relation of subject and object, but this relation presupposes a prior distinguishing act that itself requires grounding.
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    • 2.Maimon demonstrated that Reinhold's faculty of representation cannot explain why specific determinate content attaches to any given representation rather than another.
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    • 3.A principle that cannot explain the determinacy of its own outputs lacks the self-sufficiency required of a genuine first principle, exposing an explanatory gap at the foundation.
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    • 1.Schulze's Aenesidemus showed that Reinhold illicitly smuggles in causal language when attributing the matter of representation to an affecting thing in itself.
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    • 2.The category of causality, on Kantian grounds, applies only within possible experience and cannot legitimately extend to the relation between things in themselves and representations.
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    • 3.Any Elementary Philosophy that relies on trans-experiential causation to ground objective matter thereby violates the critical constraints it ostensibly accepts, undermining its own coherence.
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    • 1.The Principle of Consciousness is supposed to be the first principle of philosophy in the Elementary Philosophy.
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    • 2.The material aspect of representation presupposes a thing in itself as the ground of objective matter.
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    • 3.The thing in itself stands outside the synthetic unity of subject and object constitutive of representation and therefore cannot be represented.
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    Second, Reinhold claims that the Elementary Philosophy presupposes “the wretched thing in itself” (Vermischter Schriften II, p. 359; RGS 5/2, 139) and cannot account for the objective matter of our representations. In the Elementary Philosophy, the “matter” of a representation is that through which the representation has objective reference (Beyträge I, p. 182f.; 2003: 124f.). It is supposed to be given in outer sensation by something distinct from the subject, namely a thing in itself (Versuch,
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