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    It is not the case that A judgment of experience has objective validity.

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    • 1.Kant's categories of understanding are constitutive of experience only for beings with our cognitive architecture, not universally for all possible minds.
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    • 2.If objective validity depends on necessary universal validity, and that necessity is anthropocentric, then 'objective' validity is covertly species-relative.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory entails that causal necessity is a habit of mind projected onto constant conjunctions, not discovered in objects themselves.
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    • 2.If the relation to an object in a judgment of experience is grounded in projected necessity rather than mind-independent structure, the judgment tracks psychological compulsion, not objectivity.
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    • 1.A judgment of experience is a judgment that has been given a relation to an object.
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    • 2.Any judgment related to an object is intended to be valid at all times and for everyone.
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    • 3.Necessary universal validity constitutes objective validity.
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