 Despite these perceived shortcomings, scholars agree that Reinhold’s final philosophical phase offers many insights. Reinhold actively engages with various philosophers who thematize language: in addition to referring to thinkers in his proximity (e.g. Bernhardi, Bouterwek, Fichte, Fries, Hamann, Herder, Jacobi, and Schulze), he cites Leibniz as a forerunner of synonymic (Grundlegung einer Synonymik, p. 185f.) and draws on the British tradition in figures such as Bacon, Locke, and Hume. Reinhold anticipates Wilhelm von Humboldt’s rejection of instrumentalist views of language in support of the interdependence of thought and language, as well as aspects of Frege (Bondeli 1995: 271) and Wittgenstein (Bernecker 2018: 3374f.). There is still much to be investigated in the history of the philosophy of language in general (for studies of this history in German philosophy, see Cloeren 1988; Forster 2010; and Forster 2011) and Reinhold’s place in it in particular.