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    Subjective consciousness cannot reflect things as they ar... — Carmelics
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    Subjective consciousness cannot reflect things as they are in themselves, but only as they appear when schematized according to subjective categories.

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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that the subjective field of consciousness has a crucial limit.
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    • 2.The subjective field of consciousness schematizes experience according to subjective categories rather than apprehending things in themselves.
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    • 1.McDowell argues in Mind and World that conceptual capacities are not distorting filters but the very medium through which reality is rationally disclosed to conscious beings.
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    • 2.If the categories through which we experience the world are themselves shaped by engagement with that world, the distinction between appearance and thing-in-itself loses its epistemic force.
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    • 3.Sellars' critique of the Myth of the Given shows that rejecting raw unconceptualized data does not entail that conceptualized experience fails to track mind-independent reality.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenological method demonstrates that intentional consciousness can disclose the essential structures of phenomena as they genuinely are, not merely as subjectively distorted.
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    • 2.If categorial intuition grants direct access to ideal objects like logical truths, then at least some conscious acts transcend subjective schematization and reach mind-independent structures.
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    Ultimately, however, there is a crucial limit to the subjective “field of consciousness.” As Kant demonstrated, subjective consciousness cannot reflect things as they are in themselves, but only as they appear when schematized according to subjective categories. What, then, is the ultimate place wherein the encounter between subjects and objects takes place, wherein persons and things coexist? According to Nishida, this must be the place wherein persons and things not only undergo changes in acc
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