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    It is not the case that Strawson's logical geography objection shows that Kant's two-aspect doctrine is internally coherent even when read as implying a mind-independent substrate with determinate (if unknowable) properties.

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    • 1.Attributing determinate properties to the unknowable substrate undermines Kant's critical project of limiting knowledge to possible experience.
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    • 2.Logical coherence alone doesn't resolve whether Kant actually endorsed mind-independent determinacy; textual evidence remains ambiguous or opposed.
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    • 3.Strawson's distinction between logical and metaphysical coherence may obscure rather than solve the underlying epistemic paradox of knowing unknowables.
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    • 1.Strawson distinguishes logical/conceptual distinctions from metaphysical ones, allowing coherent talk of unknowable substrates without contradiction.
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    • 2.Kant's thing-in-itself can be logically distinguished from phenomena without requiring we know its properties, preserving Kantian agnosticism.
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    • 3.The two-aspect view avoids the standard incoherence charge by treating 'same object, two presentations' as a conceptual rather than metaphysical problem.
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