2. Three Problems for Kant I should note here that in this context one should also discuss "the affection problem," which concerns the issue of whether the Kantian must illegitimately apply the category of causation to the thing in itself. Atlas takes this to be a central problem that moved Maimon. That there is a tie between this problem and the myth of the given problematic should be clear from what I say about the latter. 2.1 The Myth of the Given Here's one way to spiel Sellars' (1997) "myth of the given" problematic- If we think of intuitions as just brute givens to which concepts are then applied, a problem arises. Once we apply the concept we have a judgment, which is the kind of thing that can be justified by reference to other
