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    It is not the case that Therefore the boundary between appearances and things-in-themselves cannot be drawn in the way the claim requires, undermining the epistemic limit it asserts.

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    • 1.A distinction can be logically coherent even if we cannot empirically access one side; mathematical truths reference objects we never directly perceive.
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    • 2.The claim confuses epistemological limits with ontological boundaries; we can meaningfully posit unknowable things-in-themselves despite cognitive constraints.
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    • 3.The objection assumes the boundary requires direct comparison, but we can infer it indirectly from structural features of experience itself (like its systematic organization).
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    • 1.Any meaningful distinction requires shared criteria intelligible to both sides; we lack access to things-in-themselves to establish such criteria.
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    • 2.We can only know appearances through our cognitive faculties; distinguishing them from what exists independently requires stepping outside cognition itself.
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    • 3.The very act of drawing a boundary between two domains requires conceptual resources that apply within experience, making the boundary self-undermining.
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