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    Challenges→Kant's philosophy is self-refuting because his own theory renders its central assertions unknowable

    A theory that makes claims it simultaneously declares unknowable is internally inconsistent

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    Many of Kant’s early readers concluded that Kant’s philosophy is inconsistent: he claims that we cannot know the very assertions he makes about things in themselves. Kant’s own theory renders itself unknowable.[32]

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