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    The synthetic unity between subject and object in consciousness presupposes an original activity of the absolute subject

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    • 1.Consciousness requires a synthetic unity between subject and object
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    • 2.The empirical I cannot ground this synthetic unity a priori
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    • 3.An a priori ground for the unity of subject and object in consciousness is required
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that 'subject' is a functional shorthand for sequences of perceptions, not a metaphysical entity requiring grounding.
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    • 2.If the subject is itself a construction from experiential contents, positing an 'absolute subject' beneath it commits a regress rather than resolving one.
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    • 3.The synthetic unity of experience can be explained by habit and associative principles without invoking any original activity of a non-empirical subject.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental unity of apperception is a formal logical condition, not an ontological 'absolute subject' with original activity.
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    • 2.Reinhold illicitly hypostatizes Kant's functional unity into a substantial ground, moving from epistemology to metaphysics without justification.
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    • 3.The synthetic unity of subject and object in consciousness is fully explicable as a regulative structure without positing any entity that 'performs' that unity.
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    In the first public announcement of his conversion to the Wissenschaftslehre, Reinhold discusses three primary issues deficient in the Elementary Philosophy, for which the Wissenschaftslehre is supposed to account: first, the a priori possibility of consciousness; second, objective matter; and third, the unconditioned unity of theoretical and practical reason. Concerning the first point, Reinhold had previously regarded Fichte’s pure I as an inconceivable basis of philosophy, if the Principle of
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