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    Challenges→Subjective consciousness cannot reflect things as they are in themselves, but only as they appear when schematized according to subjective categories.

    If categorial intuition grants direct access to ideal objects like logical truths, then at least some conscious acts transcend subjective schematization and reach mind-independent structures.

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    Mind-independent structures(what scientific realists claim our theories are approximately true about)
    Real features of the world that exist and have their properties regardless of what any human thinks about them or whether anyone is observing them.
    Subjective schematization(philosophy of mind and epistemology)
    The way an individual mind organizes and structures its experiences based on its own personal perspective, mental habits, or framework—basically, how your brain's wiring shapes what you perceive.
    categorial intuition(Husserl 2001, 292)
    An act, in Husserl's phenomenology, in virtue of which the universal is brought to consciousness and actual givenness.
    ideal objects(as examples of things whose reality is being questioned)
    Abstract things that exist only in thought or as concepts, like numbers, geometric shapes, or mathematical ideas—as opposed to physical objects you can touch.

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