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> Not only does this start with a tautology, but a random one at that.

Are you claiming it’s tautological to say that self-consciousness is temporal? How?

You’d have to show that a logical analysis of the concept of time reveals that all instances of time are also instances of self-consciousness.

And a premise isn’t random if it’s shown to relate to the rest of the argument. If Kant started by saying “Frogs are frogs,” then that would be a random premise in this argument, as well as a tautology.