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    It is not the case that The coherence of transcendental idealism, on Allison's reconstruction, rests on the premise that there is no coherent sense to questions about how objects are independent of any perspective on them.

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    • 1.Hilary Putnam's internal realism distinguishes mind-independent objects from perspective-independent descriptions without collapsing into transcendental idealism.
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    • 2.A coherent notion of objects 'as they are' can be cashed out relative to an idealized epistemic community rather than requiring a view from nowhere.
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    • 3.Allison's move conflates the linguistic incoherence of perspective-free descriptions with the metaphysical incoherence of perspective-independent existence, committing a use-mention fallacy.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's 'bounds of sense' critique establishes that transcendental idealism generates a Two-Worlds problem regardless of whether perspective-free questions are deemed incoherent.
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    • 2.If the thing-in-itself is genuinely unknowable, Allison's epistemic conditions account cannot avoid positing a residual noumenal domain that outstrips any perspectival framework.
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    • 3.Denying coherence to perspective-independent questions about objects is itself a substantive metaphysical commitment that reintroduces the very transcendental realism Allison seeks to avoid.
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    • 1.The objection to transcendental idealism implicitly assumes that the claim 'empirical objects are in space' is coherent independently of specifying a perspective on those objects.
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    • 2.This assumption commits the objector to transcendental realism.
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    • 3.If Allison replies by pointing out this implicit commitment to transcendental realism, then Allison's reconstruction of transcendental idealism depends on denying that questions about objects independent of any perspective are coherent.
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