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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(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