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    Supports→The qualification 'qua appearances' or 'considered with our epistemic conditions' is redundant (otiose) when describing objects under an epistemic condition.

    If the domain of objects cognized under spatial conditions just is the domain of appearances, the qualifier 'qua appearances' tracks no additional variable in our ontological inventory.

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    Key Terms

    Appearances(Kantian transcendental idealism)
    Objects as they are given through sensible intuition and structured by the categories, as opposed to things in themselves (objects as they are independently of human cognition).
    Ontological inventory(as what the principle determines)
    A complete list of everything that actually exists in reality—what we should count as 'real' things.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Variable(as used in logic and causation)
    Something that can change or have different values—like temperature, height, or whether a light is on or off.
    cognized(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))

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    Understood or known by the mind; when you cognize something, you grasp it intellectually rather than just sensing it.
    domain of objects(in epistemology and metaphysics)
    The collection or set of all things that we're talking about or considering in a particular context.
    qua(Christological reduplicative strategy for handling incompatible properties)
    A grammatical modifier meaning 'with respect to' or 'in virtue of', used to index a predication to a specific nature.
    spatial conditions(in metaphysics and Kantian philosophy)
    The requirement that something exists in space with measurable dimensions like height, width, and depth.

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