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    It is not the case that Stroud's own 1977 argument concedes that transcendental arguments yield conclusions about how we must represent the world, not about world-as-it-is-in-itself.

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    • 1.If our representations must correspond to how we can represent things, this constrains what world-in-itself could be compatible with our cognition.
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    • 2.Stroud's concession conflates epistemological limits with metaphysical silence; we may still infer structural features of reality from representational necessity.
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    • 3.The claim that transcendental arguments yield only representational conclusions may itself require unprovable assumptions about mind-world separation.
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    • 1.Transcendental arguments trace necessary conditions for experience, not metaphysical facts about reality independent of cognition.
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    • 2.Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena shows that proving necessary representational structures doesn't establish noumenal properties.
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    • 3.Stroud correctly identifies that deriving 'we must represent X' from 'X is necessary for experience' doesn't entail 'X exists independently.'
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