What is Allison's 'two-aspect' theory of idealism?
The 'two-aspect' theory, as I developed it, posits that transcendental idealism should not be understood as asserting two distinct realms (noumenal and phenomenal) but rather as two inseparable aspects of a single reality. The phenomenal aspect refers to how things appear to us, structured by our cognitive faculties, while the noumenal aspect refers to things as they are in themselves, beyond our empirical cognition. These are not separate worlds, but different ways of considering the same reality: one as it is constituted by our experience, and one as it is independently of that constitution.
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