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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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