Sentence examples for all my representations from inspiring English sources

On Kant's view, this would be a problem because, as we have seen, he holds that self-consciousness involves universality and necessity: according to his principle of apperception, "the I think must be able to accompany all my representations" (B131).

Kant denies that the metaphysician is entitled to his substantive conclusions on the grounds that the activity of self-consciousness (transcendental apperception, often formulated in terms of the necessary possibility of attaching the "I think" to all my representations (B132)) does not yield any object for thought.

In the transcendental ego he laid down such a principle: Being aware of ourselves as thinking subjects we know the subject as being a unified and unique whole (the 'same') in all of its different perceptions or thoughts: "The I think must be able to accompany all my representations" [ 3], §16, B 131.

So self-consciousness requires that I can relate all of my representations to a single objective world.

All of my representations must be accessible to consciousness in this way (but they need not actually be conscious), because again that is simply what makes a representation count as mine.

On the other hand, self-consciousness would also be impossible if I represented multiple objective worlds, even if I could relate all of my representations to some objective world or other.

They've known me all my life.

P: All my children were there.

This bodily self, then, appears as the "gathering place" not just of my representations, but also as the "origin of all movements connected physiologically with bodily feelings", the pole of all attraction and repulsion.

I'll stand by my representations, but interested readers can find her critique at www.ifamericansknew.com.

What sort of unity must I consciously recognize among my representations that would account for my representation of this identity?