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    Challenges→The coherence of transcendental idealism, on Allison's reconstruction, rests on the premise that there is no coherent sense to questions about how objects are independent of any perspective on them.

    Denying coherence to perspective-independent questions about objects is itself a substantive metaphysical commitment that reintroduces the very transcendental realism Allison seeks to avoid.

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    Metaphysical commitment(describing what accepting an idea requires)
    A belief you're taking on about how reality fundamentally works—what actually exists and what's possible.
    Perspective-independent(describing questions about objects that don't rely on any individual's point of view)
    Something that exists or is true regardless of anyone's particular viewpoint or opinion; objective rather than dependent on a specific person's perspective.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)

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    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.
    substantive(classification of linguistic forms by their role in expressing categories of thought)
    The linguistic form required to express thought's apprehension of independent objects
    transcendental realism(Used by Kant as a foil to his own transcendental idealism)
    The view that objects independent of our representations exist with the very forms (spatiality, temporality, etc.) that we represent them as having — a position Kant explicitly rejects.

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