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    It is not the case that If thinking about things in themselves using categories is genuinely coherent thought, it must carry minimal ontological commitments about what is being thought.

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    • 1.Using any category entails commitment to that category applying to something; application itself is an ontological claim.
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    • 2.Thought about 'things in themselves' necessarily presupposes they possess some determinate nature that makes them intelligible at all.
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    • 3.Coherence without ontological commitment is impossible: meaningful categories must carve reality at some joints, not purely arbitrary joints.
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    • 1.Categories are formal structures for organizing thought, not descriptions of reality, so they impose no claims about actual existence.
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    • 2.Coherent thought requires only internal logical consistency, not correspondence with ontological facts about objects themselves.
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    • 3.Minimal commitments preserve generality: fewer assumptions about what exists allows thought to apply across diverse domains.
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