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    Spatio-temporal determinacy in experience is not explicable by internal transformation alone, since the very categories of 'time' and 'place' are abstracted from mind-independent regularities per Kant's empirical realism.

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    Abstracted from(as used in this philosophical statement)
    Drawn out or derived from something; extracted as a general idea from specific concrete things.
    Internal transformation(as used in this epistemological argument)
    Changes that happen only inside the mind or subject, without anything outside the mind causing them.
    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.
    Mind-independent regularities(as used in metaphysics and epistemology)
    Patterns or consistent rules in the world that exist whether or not any conscious being is observing them.
    Spatio-temporal determinacy

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    (as used in metaphysics and epistemology)
    The idea that things have specific, definite locations in space and specific moments in time—they aren't vague or fuzzy about where and when they exist.
    categories(Kantian epistemology)
    The most basic concepts of objects in general, which are unavoidably employed whenever we think about anything whatsoever
    empirical realism(Kant identifies empirical realism with his own transcendental idealism)
    The view that space, time, causation, and the other categories are real features of the empirical world of experience — Kant's term for the complement to transcendental idealism within his system.
    experience(The sense in which experience can help account for knowledge of an order of nature)
    Consciousness of events as a related series

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