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We must also recall that the whole scheme, the whole radical subpicture, seems incoherent in a familiar way.

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In presenting the antinomies, Kant does not explicitly argue for the radical subpicture.

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There is a more striking version of the two-world picture, however, on which we do get the result that we can neither refer to God nor predicate properties of him (call it the radical subpicture ').

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But suppose we try to find something like an argument there, either for the radical subpicture or for the conclusion we have been deriving from the radical subpicture, the conclusion that our concepts do not apply to the noumena, so that we cannot refer to and think about them.

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Indeed, on the radical subpicture, it is more than vexed.

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Well, if you find the radical subpicture overwhelmingly attractive, then (incoherence aside)

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So the moderate subpicture, too, gives no aid and comfort to the claim that our concepts do not apply to God.

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At this point, the radical subpicture diverges from the more pedestrian version of the two-world picture, for on the radical subpicture, we construct objects by applying concepts (representations, Vorstellungen) to the manifold.

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[27] Perhaps one must think of the radical subpicture as a sort of hypothesis proposed as best explaining certain phenomena.

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But on the radical subpicture, Kant (at least if his intellectual equipment is like that of the rest of us) should not be able to refer to the Dinge at all, or even speculate that there might be such things.

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