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We must deny that things-in-themselves possess spatio-temporal structure

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1.Any isomorphism between knowledge and the known must be necessary
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2.There is no ground to assert a necessary isomorphism between the spatio-temporal structure of our experience and the spatio-temporal structure of things as they are in themselves
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1.Transcendental idealism's own coherence requires things-in-themselves to causally affect sensibility, presupposing temporal succession.
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2.Causal affection between things-in-themselves and the mind implicitly attributes temporal priority to the noumenal cause.
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3.A thing-in-itself that causally precedes experience cannot be wholly stripped of temporal structure without making affection unintelligible.
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