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    Challenges→Reason's transcendental ideas of the unconditioned can never provide theoretical knowledge of any object

    A limit can only be identified by a cognition that already grasps what lies on both sides of it, so Kant's critical boundary-drawing covertly claims the very unconditioned knowledge it denies.

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    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    cognition(Interpretation of Kant's use of 'cognition' (Erkenntnis) as pertaining to meaning/intelligibility rather than merely knowledge)
    A semantic notion (on the interpretation described)
    covertly(as describing how Kant's argument allegedly makes a hidden claim)
    Hidden or done in secret, without being openly admitted.
    critical boundary-drawing(as Kant's main philosophical project)
    Kant's attempt to establish a clear line between knowledge we *can* have (things about our experience) and knowledge we *cannot* have (things beyond our experience, like God or the soul).

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    unconditioned knowledge(as what Kant supposedly denies but secretly claims)
    Knowledge that doesn't depend on conditions or limits—knowledge of something complete and absolute, without needing to reference anything outside it.

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