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    It is not the case that Allison's two-aspect reading mirrors Kant's own distinction between considering objects under sensible conditions versus abstracting from those conditions.

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    • 1.Kant's sensibility/intellect distinction differs fundamentally from appearance/thing-in-itself distinction in scope and metaphysical weight.
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    • 2.Allison's reading risks conflating epistemological abstraction with ontological independence, which Kant arguably keeps separate throughout CPR.
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    • 3.The two-aspect reading may impose modern interpretive frameworks onto Kant's text rather than reflecting distinctions Kant himself emphasizes.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly contrasts empirical knowledge under spatiotemporal forms with intellectual concepts abstracted from sensible conditions in CPR.
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    • 2.Allison's two-aspect reading interprets things-in-themselves and appearances as epistemic stances rather than ontological layers, mirroring Kant's method.
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    • 3.Both Kant and Allison distinguish between how objects are given to us versus how we can think about them apart from receptivity constraints.
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