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    It is not the case that Kant's categories of the understanding (causality, substance, unity) are non-qualitative yet constitutive of human cognition, not derived from sensory qualities.

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    • 1.Developmental evidence suggests causal reasoning emerges gradually from sensorimotor interaction, not expressed as innate categorical intuition.
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    • 2.Categories may be abstracted from recurring patterns in sensory experience rather than constitutive preconditions wholly independent of it.
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    • 3.Kant's distinction between 'non-qualitative' and 'sensory' is unclear: structural organization of sensations could itself be a cognitive quality.
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    • 1.Infants apply causality before sensory learning could establish it, suggesting innate cognitive structures independent of experience.
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    • 2.The unity of apperception—binding diverse sensations into one consciousness—cannot itself be a sensory quality but must be a precondition for experience.
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    • 3.Mathematical and logical necessity transcend empirical patterns, indicating non-qualitative categorical structures organize all possible knowledge.
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