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    Challenges→Kant's philosophy is self-refuting because his own theory renders its central assertions unknowable

    Kant claims we cannot have knowledge of things in themselves

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
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    Many of Kant’s early readers concluded that Kant’s philosophy is inconsistent: he claims that we cannot know the very assertions he makes about things in themselves. Kant’s own theory renders itself unknowable.[32]

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