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Appearances and Things in Themselves: Actuality and Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2016

Nicholas F. Stang*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Abstract

Lucy Allais’s anti-phenomenalist interpretation of transcendental idealism is incomplete in two ways. First of all, like some phenomenalists, she is committed to denying the coherence of claims of numerical identity of appearances and things in themselves. Secondly, she fails to explain adequately what grounds the actuality of appearances. This opens the door to a phenomenalist understanding of appearances.

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Copyright
© Kantian Review 2016 

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