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    It is not the case that Appearance, though inconsistent with itself, cannot be divorced from 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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