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    Challenges→Objects cannot have spatio-temporal structure independently of our representing them as spatio-temporal

    Kant's inference from the necessity of synthetic a priori truths to their mind-dependence conflates epistemic and ontological necessity.

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    • 1.Epistemic necessity (unknowable a priori without mind) differs from ontological necessity (must exist independent of minds).
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    • 2.Kant infers that because we cannot conceive alternatives to synthetic a priori truths, they must depend on our cognitive structure.
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    • 3.This reasoning conflates 'necessarily true for us' with 'true in virtue of our minds,' equivocating between two necessity types.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly grounds synthetic a priori necessity in transcendental conditions of possible experience, not mere conceivability limits.
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    • 2.Mind-dependence of justification differs from mind-dependence of truth; Kant's argument operates at the justification level throughout.
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    • 3.The conflation charge assumes realist metaphysics; Kant's framework rejects this assumption, making the critique question-begging.
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