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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Kant's transcendental ideality isn't a claim about degree of illusion but about the conditions of experience itself—a different categorical claim.
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    • 2.Empirical reality can be stable within the phenomenal domain even if grounded transcendentally; stability doesn't require noumenal grounding.
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    • 3.Sellars conflates epistemic justification with metaphysical constitution—subjectivity in ground needn't entail illusoriness of content.
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    • 1.If knowledge requires objective validity, then cognitions grounded merely in subjective constitution cannot constitute genuine knowledge.
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    • 2.Kant's things-in-themselves are unknowable, yet ground all empirical representations, making their epistemic status internally contradictory.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'merely subjective' from 'objective' requires a criterion that transcends the subjective domain itself—which Kant cannot provide.
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