 Fichte agreed with Reinhold’s programmatic demands for the systematic completeness of philosophy and its foundation in the form of a first principle. Although Fichte admitted the validity of Reinhold’s Principle of Consciousness, he denied that it could serve as a first principle, since it presupposes a subject and object to be related and distinguished in representation. According to Fichte, the first principle of philosophy must be a non-propositional self-positing, which, by its very activity is simultaneously factive, a Tathandlung. However, Reinhold was initially unphased by these and similar criticisms by Salomon Maimon, taking himself to anticipate them in the first essay of his 1794 Beyträge II. It would be several more years before Reinhold conceded the superiority of Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre.