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    There must be two different genera of representational unification corresponding to same-continuum and different-continuum representations.

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    • 1.Representations lying on the same sensory continuum mutually inhibit and dim each other (e.g., colors inhibit other colors).
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    • 2.Representations from generically different continua (e.g., color vs. taste) do not oppose or inhibit each other.
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    • 3.Because representations may belong to the same or different continua, the principle of unification must differ depending on which case obtains.
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    • 1.Gestalt psychology demonstrates that cross-modal integration (e.g., audiovisual speech perception) follows unified binding principles regardless of continuum membership.
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    • 2.If a single binding mechanism governs both within-continuum and cross-continuum unification, positing two genera of unification violates parsimony without explanatory gain.
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    • 3.Wundt's apperceptive synthesis treats all representational combination as a single active faculty, making continuum-type distinctions epiphenomenal to the underlying unification process.
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    • 1.Herbart's continuum distinction presupposes that inhibition is the primary mechanism of representational relation, but Kant's transcendental unity of apperception grounds all combination in a single spontaneous act prior to any sensory differentiation.
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    • 2.If the unity of consciousness is logically prior to the differentiation of sensory continua, then continuum-type differences are products of unification rather than constraints upon it, inverting Herbart's explanatory order.
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    The soul’s unity that we encountered in 3.2 functioned as the metaphysical principle of the inhibition of opposed representations in 3.3.1–2. Now, again, unity is the principle by which the unification of certain representations might be explained (cf. SW V: 307). We must keep in mind that our sensations (Sinnesempfindungen) form various continua, “sense dimensions” (Boudewijnse, et al. 1999: 179), or “modalities” (Boring 1950: 258), e.g., of color or taste and smell (PsW: 171; SW V: 307, f.). W
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