Sellars argues that Kant's distinction between empirical reality and transcendental ideality is unstable, since any cognition framed as 'merely subjective' in its ultimate ground is epistemically illusory by degree.

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Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Sellars: Wilfrid Sellars was an influential 20th-century American philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about knowledge, perception, and meaning. He argued that our scientific understanding of the world and our everyday experiences of it aren't separate things but need to be brought together into one coherent picture. His ideas, particularly about how language relates to reality and how we know things, continue to shape modern philosophy.
empirical reality(one of Kant's key categories): The world as it appears to us through our senses and experiences—what we can actually observe and measure.
epistemically illusory(the problem Sellars identifies with Kant's framework): Misleading or false in a way that affects what we can know; it tricks us about what counts as genuine knowledge.
merely subjective(how the argument describes certain kinds of knowledge): Something that exists only in a person's mind or perspective, not as an objective fact about the world.
transcendental ideality(Kant's position in the Critique of Pure Reason, second edition): The doctrine that spatio-temporality is a necessary feature of our representations of things but not a feature of things as they are in themselves

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