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    It is not the case that There must be a certain way in which each of a subject's representations is unified in the subject, and this way is judgment.

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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that associative contiguity and resemblance can bind representations without requiring a judging subject.
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    • 2.If Humean association produces functional unity of representations, judgment is sufficient but not necessary for representational unification.
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    • 3.Kant's argument from B141 assumes objective unity requires apperception, but this conflates epistemic normativity with psychological unification.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Pre-reflective bodily experience (Merleau-Ponty's motor intentionality) unifies representations without propositional judgment structure.
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    • 2.Perceptual synthesis in skilled action coheres phenomenologically prior to any act of predication or conceptual subsumption.
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    • 1.Representations must be unified in the subject in some determinate manner.
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    • 2.Judgment is the manner in which given cognitions are brought to the objective unity of apperception (B141).
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