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    It is not the case that The coherence of Allison's reconstruction of the non-spatiality thesis depends upon the denial of a standpoint-independent perspective on reality.

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    • 1.Allison's epistemic/metaphysical distinction allows coherent use of 'things in themselves' as a limiting concept without positing a rival standpoint.
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    • 2.A limiting concept need not represent an accessible perspective; it functions to demarcate the boundaries of possible cognition, not to occupy a view from nowhere.
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    • 3.Therefore, coherence of the non-spatiality thesis requires only the conceptual contrast between conditioned and unconditioned cognition, not the denial of standpoint-independence per se.
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    • 1.Strawson's logical geography objection shows that Kant's two-aspect doctrine is internally coherent even when read as implying a mind-independent substrate with determinate (if unknowable) properties.
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    • 2.If Kant's non-spatiality thesis remains coherent under Strawson's realist reading, then Allison's anti-realist denial of a standpoint-independent perspective is not a necessary condition for the thesis's coherence.
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    • 3.The coherence of the non-spatiality thesis is thus underdetermined between Allison's perspectivalism and a modest noumenal realism, undermining the claim that it depends on denying standpoint-independence.
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    • 1.Allison's reconstruction relativizes claims about objects to a perspective (e.g., objects as objects for a certain kind of mind).
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    • 2.If there were a standpoint-independent perspective on reality, the relativization move would be undermined.
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    • 3.The non-spatiality thesis as reconstructed by Allison is coherent only if all claims about objects must be perspective-relative.
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