 If Reinhold displays considerable originality and ingenuity in deriving the above mentioned results from his first principle (the Principle of Consciousness), the same cannot be said of the subsequent part of the Elementary Philosophy, the “Theory of the Faculty of Cognition,” which follows Kant’s own exposition much more closely than the Theory of the Faculty of Representation and becomes increasingly schematic—and less convincing—as it advances. (Reinhold’s sole attempt at a complete exposition of his “Theory of the Faculty of Cognition” is roughly sketched in Book 3 of the Versuch, whereas the “Theory of the Faculty of Representation” is treated in elaborate detail in all three of his book-length presentations of the Elementary Philosophy.)