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    Appearance, though inconsistent with itself, cannot be divorced from reality.

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    • 1.Reality set apart from all appearance would be nothing.
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    • 2.One cannot deny the existence of appearance.
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    • 3.Therefore appearance, even if inconsistent, must remain connected to reality.
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    • 1.Reality, as conceived by Kant's thing-in-itself (Ding an sich), is wholly independent of and inaccessible to any appearance presented to cognition.
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    • 2.If reality can exist entirely beyond the conditions of possible experience, then appearance and reality are structurally separable domains.
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    • 3.Therefore, appearance's necessary connection to reality cannot be assumed without begging the question against transcendental dualism.
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    • 1.Parmenides and the Eleatic tradition held that genuine Being is unchanging, indivisible, and wholly unlike the flux of sensory appearance.
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    • 2.If inconsistent appearances reveal only the realm of non-Being or doxa, their connection to true reality is one of radical ontological disjunction, not continuity.
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    • 3.The inference from 'appearance cannot be denied' to 'appearance must be connected to reality' conflates epistemic unavoidability with ontological integration.
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    The result of his examination not just of the concepts of quality and relation but of all the other concepts he deals with consists in the verdict that all attempts to capture the true nature of reality in terms of these categories are futile because all these concepts are unintelligible, inconsistent and in the end self-contradictory. This means that what is designated by means of them cannot be real, but can only reflect the way the world appears to us, not the way it really is. This diagnosis
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