This is the essential synthesising work of the mind wherein the objects themselves and personal experience of them are interdependent, held together by the “I”, the transcendental unity of apperception. Kant says: “The grounds of the possibility of experience as such are at one and the same time the grounds of the possibility of the objects of experience”.21 That is, Hume’s scepticism concerning complex ideas and their validity were supposedly answered by Kant’s transcendental move. In Hegel, the
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