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    Kant's philosophy is self-refuting because his own theory renders its central assertions unknowable

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    • 1.Kant's transcendental framework itself presupposes knowledge of how cognition 'really works,' contradicting his own limits on theoretical knowledge.
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    • 2.As Jacobi argued in 1787, entering Kant's system requires assuming mind-independent things-in-themselves, but staying in it forbids that very assumption.
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    • 3.A doctrine whose foundational architecture requires what the doctrine itself prohibits is not merely incomplete—it is formally self-undermining.
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    • 1.Kant's claim that space and time are subjective forms of intuition is presented as a necessary, universal truth—precisely the kind of synthetic a priori claim his critics argue cannot be grounded without illegitimate metaphysical commitments.
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    • 2.Strawson's 'austere' reading in 'The Bounds of Sense' shows that Kant's psychologistic idiom—describing what 'we' must experience—slides between empirical description and transcendental legislation without justification.
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    • 3.Any theory that employs the very cognitive structures it claims to be analyzing as its primary tool of analysis cannot escape the charge of vicious circularity.
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    • 1.Kant claims we cannot have knowledge of things in themselves
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    • 2.Kant makes assertions about things in themselves (e.g., that they exist and affect sensibility)
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    • 3.A theory that makes claims it simultaneously declares unknowable is internally inconsistent
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    Many of Kant’s early readers concluded that Kant’s philosophy is inconsistent: he claims that we cannot know the very assertions he makes about things in themselves. Kant’s own theory renders itself unknowable.[32]
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