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    Therefore, invoking things in themselves as causal ground... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Kant's philosophy is inconsistent regarding the application of categories to things in themselves

    Therefore, invoking things in themselves as causal grounds for experience simultaneously requires and undermines the transcendental deduction's account of categorical legitimacy.

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    • 1.The Transcendental Deduction justifies categories as conditions for possible experience, not things-in-themselves.
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    • 2.Appealing to things-in-themselves as causal grounds places them outside the transcendental framework, creating logical inconsistency.
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    • 3.Kant's critical project requires distinguishing empirical causation from transcendental grounding to avoid circularity.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly allows things-in-themselves to affect sensibility; this is distinct from justifying categorical legitimacy.
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    • 2.The Deduction concerns synthetic a priori knowledge of phenomena, not the metaphysics of causation by noumena.
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    • 3.Requiring and undermining are not equivalent; grounding sensibility doesn't undermine the Deduction's epistemological project.
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