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    It is not the case that The categories and principles of pure understanding yield cognition only of appearances, not things in themselves.

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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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    • 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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