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    Allison's epistemic reading of transcendental idealism is textually problematic

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    • 1.Kant's 'Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection' explicitly treats the thing in itself as a limiting concept (Grenzbegriff), not a robust ontological posit.
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    • 2.Limiting concepts function to constrain cognition, not to ground appearances causally, which aligns with Allison's epistemic conditions reading.
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    • 3.Passages where Kant invokes things in themselves as 'grounds' occur in popular expositions like the Prolegomena, where Kant simplifies for non-specialist audiences.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.Patricia Kitcher and Rae Langton each acknowledge that Kant's causal language about things in themselves is systematically ambiguous between epistemic and metaphysical readings.
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    • 3.Systematic ambiguity in foundational texts does not refute a reading; it demands the interpretive principle of charity toward internal coherence, which Allison's reading better satisfies than two-world alternatives.
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    • 1.Kant describes things in themselves as more fundamental and ontologically basic than appearances
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    • 2.Kant describes things in themselves as the grounds of appearances
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    • 3.Allison's reading reverses this relation of dependence, treating things in themselves as abstractions from appearances
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    One major textual hurdle for Allison’s “epistemic” reading of transcendental idealism is the various passages in which Kant describes things in themselves as more fundamental, more ontologically basic, than appearances, or describes things in themselves as the grounds of appearances. Allison appears to reverse this relation of dependence because things in themselves (objects from the relatively abstract transcendental perspective) are an abstraction from appearances (objects from the more determ
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