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    Challenges→The categories and principles of pure understanding yield cognition only of appearances, not things in themselves.

    Kant's inference from 'intuitions yield appearances' to 'all category-governed cognition yields only appearances' conflates a premise about receptivity with a conclusion about spontaneity.

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    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).
    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Receptivity(contrasted with spontaneity in how minds work)
    The ability to receive or take in information from the outside world through your senses or experiences.

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    Spontaneity(contrasted with receptivity in how minds work)
    The ability to generate thoughts, ideas, or actions from within yourself rather than just passively receiving them from outside.
    category-governed cognition(the type of knowledge Kant believed was limited to appearances)
    Thinking and knowing that is structured by the mind's basic organizational frameworks (like concepts of cause-and-effect or unity)—essentially, all the ways our minds organize and make sense of experience.
    intuitions(Chudnoff's account of intuitions as the basis of a priori justification)
    Intellectual perceptions that sometimes reveal abstract reality, possessing a presentational phenomenology that can be evoked through imagination, reflection, or reasoning

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