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    It is not the case that Kant's 'things in themselves' (Dinge an sich) are distinct from appearances and serve as the genuine source of affection, not spatial objects.

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    • 1.If things-in-themselves are utterly unknowable, Kant's claim about them as 'affective sources' lacks justifiable content or coherence.
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    • 2.Positing non-spatial causes of spatial intuitions creates an explanatory gap: how causation works across the phenomenon-noumenon boundary remains obscure.
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    • 3.The distinction may be conceptually confused: calling noumena non-spatial while claiming they affect us spatially-bound minds seems self-contradictory.
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    • 1.Kant must posit things-in-themselves to explain why our representations aren't arbitrary: they're constrained by external non-spatial causes.
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    • 2.Space and time are forms of human intuition, not features of reality itself, so the source of affection must transcend spatial existence.
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    • 3.Without noumena distinct from phenomena, we cannot account for the regularity and necessity we experience in empirical knowledge.
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