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    It is not the case that Henry Allison's 'epistemic conditions' reading confirms that spatial objects and things-in-themselves occupy different conceptual levels, dissolving the causal loop.

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    • 1.If things-in-themselves are entirely outside conceptual schemes, calling them 'conditions' still requires explaining their explanatory role functionally.
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    • 2.Allison's framework risks rendering things-in-themselves causally and cognitively inert, making them metaphysically redundant despite Kant's claims.
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    • 3.The distinction between conceptual levels doesn't eliminate the puzzle of how non-spatial reality grounds spatial experience without causal interaction.
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    • 1.Kant's things-in-themselves and phenomena operate at different logical levels, not causally interactive planes, resolving apparent contradictions.
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    • 2.Allison's reading avoids the incoherence of noumena causally affecting sensibility by treating them as transcendental conditions, not efficient causes.
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    • 3.Distinguishing epistemic access from metaphysical status explains why we cannot know things-in-themselves without denying their reality.
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