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    It is not the case that We cannot theoretically know that we are free.

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    • 1.Practical reason's unconditional demand for moral obligation itself constitutes a form of rational self-knowledge that is not theoretical.
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    • 2.The 'fact of reason' (Faktum der Vernunft) reveals freedom as a practical certitude prior to and independent of theoretical cognition.
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    • 3.If moral obligation is real and knowable, then freedom—its necessary condition—is known through practical rather than theoretical knowledge.
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    • 1.Kant's own transcendental idealism distinguishes appearance from thing-in-itself but does not entail total ignorance of the noumenal self.
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    • 2.The spontaneity of apperception—our awareness of ourselves as the unified subject of thought—is not empirical and cannot be fully reduced to appearance.
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    • 3.Strawson and Allison argue that the logical subject of 'I think' provides indirect but genuine rational grounds for attributing spontaneous, free agency to the self.
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    • 1.Freedom would be a property of the self as a thing in itself.
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    • 2.We cannot know anything about things in themselves.
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