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When can a person act?

I considered whether it is necessary for knowledge and perception to be identical, but I would say: they must both be present, but they do not have to be identical. Thus, different manifestations of the other object can exist in different kinds of perceptions, while inwardly there is a kind of knowledge about the object. Now one could, by chance, choose a manifestation of the perceptions and reject the manifestation of knowledge in the understanding. That would then be a subjective action, which now arises because the manifestation can be brought into contradiction with oneself, whereby another object, distinct from me, emerges, corresponding to a subjective choice. An objective action would be when knowledge about knowledge is present, and when knowledge, knowledge about knowledge, and perception are identical. If no knowledge is present, we are blocked in the understanding, because several manifestations from different forms of perception exist and all are equivalent in the present state. The terminology of “action,” since it is defined as a relation to a fixed entity, is then not well-formed. If only knowledge is present, then for me, as object 1, it is not clear whether I am currently standing in relation to another object at all - the relation could then be empty.

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