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    Challenges→The coherence of Allison's reconstruction of the non-spatiality thesis depends upon the denial of a standpoint-independent perspective on reality.

    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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    Allison
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    Noumenal realism(a position in Kant scholarship about whether objects exist independently of how we perceive them)
    The belief that things-in-themselves (things as they exist independent of human perception) are real and have actual properties.
    Perspectivalism(Allison's specific interpretation of Kant's philosophy)
    The philosophical view that knowledge and reality are always understood from some particular perspective or standpoint, not from a completely neutral viewpoint.
    Standpoint-independence(what the non-spatiality thesis might require us to deny)

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    The idea that something can be understood or known without depending on any particular observer's perspective or viewpoint.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.
    non-spatiality thesis(The thesis whose reconstruction is under dispute in this passage.)
    The thesis, attributed to Kant and reconstructed by Allison, that things (as they are in themselves, or from a standpoint-independent perspective) are not spatial.
    underdetermined(Used to contrast mathematical conjectures, whose correct answers are fixed by logical facts, with cases where no such determination exists.)
    A decision or truth is underdetermined when logical facts alone do not fix a single correct answer.

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