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    It is not the case that Kant's notion of a priori knowledge requires independence from experience, not computational accessibility or feasibility for finite minds.

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    • 1.Kant's account of a priori knowledge assumes minds can actually *access* these truths through faculties like intuition and understanding in finite time.
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    • 2.If a priori knowledge is systematically inaccessible to finite cognition, it becomes metaphysically mysterious how it constrains our experience at all.
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    • 3.Kant tied a priori knowledge to the conditions of possible experience for finite subjects; divorcing it from cognitive feasibility abandons this framework.
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    • 1.A priori knowledge must be grounded in pure reason's structure, not dependent on whether minds can efficiently access it computationally.
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    • 2.Kant's critical project distinguishes synthetic a priori truths from empirical ones by their independence from sensory input, not computational bounds.
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    • 3.Feasibility for finite minds is epistemically irrelevant to whether knowledge is a priori; necessity and universality are Kant's actual criteria.
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