Rae Langton's 'Kantian Humility' argues that things-in-themselves have intrinsic properties causally responsible for affection, entirely independent of our representational framework.
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representational framework(the background knowledge needed to understand what features matter in a watch)
A system of ideas and meanings that helps us understand and talk about something—in this case, our shared understanding of what a watch is supposed to do.
things-in-themselves(Kantian metaphysics)
The intrinsic nature of objects as they exist independently of human perception and cognition, about which Kant claims we lack substantive knowledge