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    Green infers a supra-individual intelligence as the sourc... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Green's argument represents a significant departure from Kant's theoretical agnosticism about things in themselves.

    Green infers a supra-individual intelligence as the source of cosmic order, which Kant's position would not permit.

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    Thus far, Green’s position could be considered an epistemological argument for idealism. However, he quickly moves beyond a merely epistemological argument, because his next move is to argue that since the order of which any individual human being is in various ways and to various degrees aware obviously extends beyond what could plausibly be thought to be constituted just by that individual, the order of which we are each aware must be constituted by a mind or intelligence greater than that of

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