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    It is not the case that Kant demonstrated that logical categories are forms of judgment imposed by the mind, not features of mind-independent reality.

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    • 1.If categories were merely imposed by minds, different species with different cognitive structures should have incommensurable logics, yet reality remains unified.
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    • 2.The success of mathematics and physics in predicting mind-independent phenomena suggests logical categories track objective features, not pure projections.
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    • 3.Kant conflates 'we cannot know things-in-themselves' with 'logical categories don't reflect reality,' but coherent categories might still map onto actual structure.
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason shows that causality and substance appear in all human experience, suggesting they're imposed structures rather than discovered features.
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    • 2.Different logical systems (classical, intuitionistic, paraconsistent) are equally coherent, implying categories reflect cognitive architecture, not objective reality.
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    • 3.We cannot access mind-independent reality except through cognition, so we cannot verify whether logical categories match external structure.
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