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    It is not the case that Berkeley's God performs the same structural role as Kant's things-in-themselves: grounding the regularity of experience without being directly accessible to finite minds.

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    • 1.Berkeley's God actively perceives all ideas and grounds them through continuous volitional acts, whereas Kant's things-in-themselves are causally inert and play no role in mental content.
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    • 2.Berkeley's God is a positive metaphysical entity necessarily existing and knowable through reason; Kant's things-in-themselves are structurally indeterminate and epistemically opaque by design.
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    • 3.Berkeley's system makes regularity derivative from divine intention; Kant grounds it in the a priori forms of sensibility, making the explanatory mechanisms fundamentally different.
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    • 1.Both Berkeley's God and Kant's things-in-themselves serve as explanatory posits that account for the mind-independence and regularity of sensory experience.
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    • 2.Neither entity is knowable through direct intuition or perception; both are transcendent grounds accessible only through inference from phenomenal structure.
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    • 3.Both theories preserve realism about external order while protecting it from skeptical challenges by locating certainty in the grounding principle rather than appearances.
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