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    Kant's transcendental idealism entails that 'mind-indepen... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Stroud's transcendental argument can at best establish a version of the causal theory in which 'independent' is read in a transcendentally ideal sense, not a fully mind-independent realist sense.

    Kant's transcendental idealism entails that 'mind-independence' can only be coherently established relative to our constitutive epistemic frameworks, not absolutely.

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    • 1.Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena shows that we can only access objects through our cognitive structures, not as they are in themselves.
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    • 2.Any claim about absolute mind-independence must itself use concepts and categories, making it necessarily framework-dependent rather than framework-transcendent.
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    • 3.Empirical objectivity (agreement among observers within our framework) provides sufficient grounding for scientific knowledge without requiring absolute independence.
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    • 1.If mind-independence requires a framework to be established, the claim becomes tautological—it merely defines 'mind-independence' relative to frameworks rather than proving it.
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    • 2.Our cognitive frameworks themselves appear to have mind-independent properties (e.g., their causal efficacy), suggesting some independence precedes framework-relativity.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemological limits (we can't know things absolutely) with metaphysical conclusions (things can't be mind-independent absolutely).
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