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    It is not the case that The character of reality as an internally diversified individual system is knowable to us.

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    • 1.Neuroscience and cognitive science establish that perceptual systems systematically distort, filter, and construct representations rather than transparently conveying reality.
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    • 2.If sentient experience is itself a species-relative construction shaped by evolutionary pressures, it cannot serve as a reliable window onto reality's intrinsic diversified structure.
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    • 3.Bradley's own regress argument shows that relational diversity within experience generates contradictions, undermining coherence of any experiential system as a model of the Absolute.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that the thing-in-itself (Ding an sich) remains permanently inaccessible to cognition, bounded by the forms of intuition.
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    • 2.If reality's ultimate structure transcends possible experience, no amount of sentient experience can reveal the system's character as it is in itself.
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    • 1.The character of reality as an internally diversified individual system is revealed to us in sentient experience.
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    • 2.Sentient experience is reality, and what is not sentient experience is not real.
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