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    It is not the case that Kantian critical rationalism is incomplete and therefore inadequate as a full conception of being.

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    • 1.Critical rationalism is restricted to describing the universal forms and possibilities of experienced reality.
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    • 2.Critical rationalism cannot account for the concrete, actual individual facts that impose themselves in experience.
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    • 3.Those concrete individual facts are left merely 'given' and unexplained within the critical rationalist theory.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental idealism posits the thing-in-itself as unknowable, creating an unbridgeable gap between appearance and ultimate reality.
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    • 2.Any theory of being that permanently excludes a domain of reality from rational inquiry cannot constitute a complete ontology.
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    • 3.Royce's absolute idealism, following Hegel's critique, dissolves this gap by grounding being in a self-knowing totality, completing what Kant left fragmented.
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    • 1.Kantian categories unify experience formally but provide no account of why any particular individual exists rather than another possible one.
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    • 2.A complete theory of being must explain not only the structure of possible experience but the modal fact of actual existence over mere possibility.
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    • 3.Leibniz's question 'why is there something rather than nothing' exposes that formal conditions of experience cannot exhaust the full account of being.
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