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    Kant's own transcendental idealism commits him to knowled... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We cannot have knowledge of things-in-themselves beyond the limits of experience.

    Kant's own transcendental idealism commits him to knowledge that things-in-themselves exist and causally affect sensibility.

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    • 1.Kant explicitly states things-in-themselves exist and affect our sensibility to ground the distinction between phenomena and noumena.
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    • 2.Without causal interaction between things-in-themselves and sensibility, Kant cannot explain why intuitions are constrained rather than arbitrary.
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    • 3.Kant's Critique repeatedly refers to affection of sensibility by objects, treating this causal relation as foundational to his system.
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    • 1.If things-in-themselves are unknowable, claiming knowledge of their existence and causal powers is self-contradictory on Kant's own principles.
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    • 2.Kant's Critical project aims to show how knowledge is possible without knowing things as they are in themselves—not to assert such knowledge.
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    • 3.The 'affection' language may be merely regulative metaphor for explaining the givenness of intuitions, not literal causal claims about noumena.
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    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.

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