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Things In Themselves
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The Problem of Intrinsic Valence
One controversial aspect concerns the purported value or valence of the Thing-in-Itself. Early Kantians argued that $\text{T}\text{i}$ must be morally neutral, as morality is exclusively a phenomenon of free will operating within the constraints of the phenomenal realm. However, later Transcendental Idealists suggested that $\text{T}\text{i}$ possesses a **[Negative…