If Kant's non-spatiality thesis remains coherent under Strawson's realist reading, then Allison's anti-realist denial of a standpoint-independent perspective is not a necessary condition for the thesis's coherence.
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The view that certain things (like truth, morality, or reality itself) don't exist independently but are instead created by or dependent on human minds or cultures.
coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C
non-spatiality thesis(The thesis whose reconstruction is under dispute in this passage.)
The thesis, attributed to Kant and reconstructed by Allison, that things (as they are in themselves, or from a standpoint-independent perspective) are not spatial.
realist reading(Strawson's approach to understanding Kant)
An interpretation of a theory that emphasizes the independent existence of things—that reality exists whether or not we perceive it.
standpoint-independent perspective(Used to characterize what Allison's position denies in order to remain coherent.)
A perspective on reality that is not relativized to any particular point of view or kind of mind; a view of objects as they are independently of any perspective.