The supporting argument's identification of Hegelian 'being' with Kantian 'empirical reality' ignores that Hegel's Phenomenology treats sense-certainty as itself already conceptually mediated, dissolving any Kantian-style passive givenness.

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Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)(His philosophical system is the main target of critique in this statement): A German philosopher (1770-1831) who created a hugely influential system of philosophy arguing that reality develops through contradictions that get resolved at higher levels of understanding.
Kant (Immanuel Kant)(as a foundational philosopher being compared to Hegel): An 18th-century German philosopher who argued that our minds structure how we experience the world, and that some knowledge comes from reason alone rather than experience.
Passive givenness(A Kantian assumption the passage challenges): The idea that reality is simply handed to us through our senses without any active thinking or interpretation on our part.
Sense-certainty(The first shape of consciousness in the Phenomenology, chapter 1.): The shape of consciousness that takes immediately given perceptual simples—bare thises with which a subject is purportedly acquainted—as the fundamental objects known.

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