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    It is not the case that Perfect knowledge requires transcending the sensible world and accessing the intelligible world

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    • 1.Kant established that the categories of understanding structure experience such that objective knowledge arises precisely through the synthesis of sensibility and intellect.
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    • 2.A faculty of knowledge that requires abandoning sensibility altogether would lack the intuitive content necessary to generate any determinate cognition.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'transcending' the sensible world would produce empty abstractions, not perfect knowledge.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle demonstrated that substantial knowledge of universal forms is achievable through systematic abstraction from sensory experience itself.
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    • 2.If knowledge of universals can be derived immanently from particulars, the posited divide between sensible and intelligible realms is not epistemologically necessary.
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    • 1.Perfect knowledge can only be knowledge of being
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    • 2.The sensible world is a world of appearances and generation, not of being
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    • 3.The senses can only inform us about the sensible world
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