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    A thing-in-itself that causally precedes experience canno... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We must deny that things-in-themselves possess spatio-temporal structure

    A thing-in-itself that causally precedes experience cannot be wholly stripped of temporal structure without making affection unintelligible.

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    • 1.Affection requires a causal relatum that acts upon the subject; a wholly atemporal cause cannot act, since action entails temporal succession.
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    • 2.If things-in-themselves lack all temporal structure, the transition from their affecting us to our being affected becomes logically inexplicable.
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    • 3.Kant's own critical philosophy presupposes that affection involves a real causal relation, which demands minimal temporal ordering in the cause.
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    • 1.Things-in-themselves exist outside space-time entirely; temporal structure is a form imposed by our cognition, not a feature of noumena themselves.
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    • 2.Affection can be rendered intelligible through non-causal or transcendental accounts that don't require the thing-in-itself to possess temporal properties.
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    • 3.Admitting temporal structure in things-in-themselves undermines Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena, collapsing critical philosophy.
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