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    Supports→Kant's account of affection by objects in space leads to a contradiction.

    If the affecting cause is grounded in intrinsic, non-relational properties of things-in-themselves, no circularity arises since spatial representations are effects, not causes, of that prior grounding.

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    Key Terms

    affecting cause(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that makes something else happen or change; the thing responsible for producing an effect.
    circularity(as used in logic and epistemology)
    A logical problem where an explanation depends on the very thing it's trying to explain, going in a circle rather than providing genuine support.
    grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features)
    To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
    intrinsic properties(Contrasted with structural properties revealed by physics)
    Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.
    non-relational properties

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    (as the properties that identical duplicates are said to share)
    Characteristics of something that exist independently and don't depend on its relationship to other things—like an object's weight or shape (as opposed to 'being next to something' or 'being taller than').
    spatial representations(as used in epistemology)
    Mental images or ideas about how things are arranged in space—the way we picture objects as having location and distance from each other.
    things-in-themselves(Kantian metaphysics)
    The intrinsic nature of objects as they exist independently of human perception and cognition, about which Kant claims we lack substantive knowledge

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