Applying this appearance-relative concept of causation to things in themselves, as affection requires, violates the very semantic conditions Kant himself specifies for legitimate category use.

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Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Legitimate(in epistemology): Accepted as valid or justified according to the standards and rules of a particular field or time period.
Semantic conditions(as used in logic and philosophy of language): The specific rules or requirements that determine whether a sentence is true or false; the conditions that must be met for a statement to mean what it says.
affection(the specific philosophical concept requiring application to things in themselves): In Kant's philosophy, the way that things in themselves impact or influence our senses and mind to create our experiences.

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