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It is not the case that Kant's transcendental idealism demonstrates that noumenal agency operates outside the causal order Spinoza's infinite regress presupposes.
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Kant's noumenal realm is epistemically sealed; claiming it 'operates' outside causality is incoherent if unknowable to us.
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Spinoza's infinite regress doesn't eliminate agency but redefines it as self-determined expression of one's nature or conatus.
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Invoking noumenal agency solves nothing: it creates an explanatory gap between unknowable will and phenomenal behavior.
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Kant's noumena are fundamentally unknowable and causally inert in phenomena, escaping deterministic chains Spinoza posits.
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Transcendental idealism preserves rational agency by locating it in noumenal self, immune to phenomenal causal necessity.
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Spinoza's substance monism requires all events trace to infinite prior causes, collapsing genuine agency into determinism.
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