Kant's own critical philosophy bars any positive theoretical knowledge of the noumenal realm, making noumenal freedom a regulative postulate rather than a substantive metaphysical account.
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Regulative postulate(what noumenal freedom is, according to Kant)
An idea we have to assume is true for practical purposes—even though we can't prove it—to make sense of how we live and make choices.
Substantive metaphysical account(what Kant's philosophy does NOT provide for freedom)
A detailed, provable explanation about how reality fundamentally works, based on solid evidence and reasoning.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
noumenal freedom(Contrasted with the deterministic causality of the natural world; accessible through practical rather than theoretical reason)
The freedom of the will as it exists in the noumenal (non-empirical) world, beyond the determinism of nature