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    Challenges→General principles of philosophy cannot be applied to the practical world.

    To apply a general first principle, one needs a criterion showing the subordinate principles to which it applies.

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    A definition need not contain a criterion of that which falls under it.General principles of philosophy cannot be applied to the practical world.How we apply a principle is a matter of judgment.Kant demonstrated that judgment has no criteria.

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    After participating in the pantheism controversy, Rehberg made his mark in other philosophical controversies of his day. In the early 1790s he wrote several reviews for the Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung of Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie, which had been at the centre stage of the new debates surrounding Kant's critical philosophy.[27] Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie was a radical form of foundationalism, whose basic aim was to derive all the results of Kant's philosophy from a si

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