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    Challenges→Things in themselves—objects considered qua objects of discursive cognition in general—are not in space.

    Strawson argues in 'The Bounds of Sense' that 'things in themselves' is an incoherent concept produced by illegitimately applying the category of existence beyond possible experience.

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    Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist)
    Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
    Possible experience(describing the boundary of what we can know)
    In Kant's philosophy, anything that could potentially be observed or experienced by a human being within the limits of how human minds work.
    Strawson
    # Strawson Peter Strawson was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for challenging the traditional view that all meaningful statements must be either true or false. He argued that some statements—like "The present King of France is bald"—are neither true nor false because they fail to properly refer to anything that exists. His work fundamentally changed how philosophers think about language, meaning, and logic.
    The Bounds of Sense(the name of the objection)
    Strawson's famous criticism of Kant, arguing that Kant's theory has an internal contradiction or logical problem.

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    category(Aristotelian usage as discussed in the passage)
    A predicate, per Aristotle's usage; the term 'predicate' can refer to realities, concepts, or linguistic terms.
    things in themselves(Kant's critical system)
    Entities posited as existing independently of human representation, distinct from appearances

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