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    The categories and principles of pure understanding yield cognition only of appearances, not things in themselves.

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    • 1.The categories and principles of pure understanding yield knowledge only when applied to intuitions.
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    • 2.Empirical intuitions have already been shown (in the Transcendental Aesthetic) to yield appearances rather than things in themselves.
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    • 3.All cognition of empirical objects requires empirical intuitions.
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    • 1.The categories are ontological structures of being itself, not merely epistemic forms imposed by a finite subject.
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    • 2.Hegel argues that Kant's thing-in-itself is a self-contradictory residue: applying the category of ground to posit it already transgresses the Kantian limit.
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    • 3.If the categories structurally mirror reality rather than filter it, their deliverances yield knowledge of things as they are, not mere appearances.
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    • 1.Kant's inference from 'intuitions yield appearances' to 'all category-governed cognition yields only appearances' conflates a premise about receptivity with a conclusion about spontaneity.
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    • 2.The pure categories, prior to schematization, are not inherently restricted to sensible conditions and may admit of non-sensible application, as Kant's own noumenal use of 'cause' in practical reason suggests.
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    Kant does not need to mount a separate argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Analytic, because while that is aimed at showing that the use of certain concepts (the categories of pure understanding) and principles (the principles of pure understanding) are necessary conditions of any cognition of objects at all, indeed of self-consciousness (apperception) itself, but also yield knowledge only when applied to intuitions, pure intuitions in the case of pure mathematical cogniti
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