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    Challenges→In the case of the self, there is a single object that is both a thing in itself and an appearance

    Allison's two-aspect reading requires that appearance and thing in itself are descriptions of the same object under different epistemic conditions, not ontologically distinct entities.

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    Allison
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    Ontologically distinct(as what Aristotle argues perception and reason are NOT)
    Completely separate in what they actually *are* as things—not just different functions, but fundamentally different kinds of existence.
    Two-aspect reading(as the main concept being explained)
    An interpretation suggesting that what we perceive (appearances) and what actually exists (things-in-themselves) are literally the same objects, just described differently depending on how we're looking at them—like how water is both H2O (scientific description) and 'wet stuff' (everyday description).
    appearance(Bradley's metaphysics; contrasted with ultimate reality)

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    That which is inconsistent with itself and cannot constitute ultimate reality, yet whose existence cannot be denied and which cannot be fully separated from reality.
    epistemic conditions
    Conditions such as space and time, without which we cannot cognize any object
    thing in itself(Allison's interpretation of Kant)
    On Allison's reading, 'thing in itself' talk refers to objects considered from some conceivable perspective more general than the specifically spatiotemporal form of human cognition

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