If the categories through which we experience the world are themselves shaped by engagement with that world, the distinction between appearance and thing-in-itself loses its epistemic force.
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thing-in-itself(Kant's distinction between appearances and things-in-themselves in the Second Antinomy)
An entity whose properties and divisions subsist independently of any act of experience or cognition, such that its decomposition into parts would form a completed (or completable) sequence.