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    It is not the case that His own epistemology concedes that imagination—our primary mode of perceiving external things—yields only confused, inadequate ideas, meaning the gap between mind and world persists at the level of finite cognition.

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    • 1.Imagination may yield confused ideas, but this doesn't entail a persistent gap—reason can correct and integrate imaginative data into adequate ideas.
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    • 2.The claim conflates imagination's limitations with ontological separation; inadequate ideas reflect cognition's form, not necessarily mind-world discontinuity.
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    • 3.Finite minds can grasp infinite substance through reason (second kind of knowledge), undermining the claim that finite cognition cannot bridge the gap.
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    • 1.Imagination depends on sensory data filtered through bodily perspective, inherently limiting access to things as they exist independently.
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    • 2.Confused ideas involve perceiving effects without grasping causes, which imagination alone cannot penetrate to achieve adequate understanding.
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    • 3.Finite minds lack the infinite intellect required to perceive external reality sub specie aeternitatis, confirming a structural epistemic gap.
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