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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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