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    It is not the case that A practice that systematically withholds assent to all propositions cannot coherently be said to obey any imperative.

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    • 1.One can follow imperative rules (like logical inference rules) through pure behavioral regularity without propositional assent.
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    • 2.Withholding assent to propositions ≠ assenting to 'no propositions are true'—it's orthogonal to obedience capacity.
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    • 3.Even skeptics who reject assent to most propositions can coherently follow imperatives through dispositional compliance, not belief.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Imperatives prescribe actions that require propositional assent (e.g., 'obey X' presupposes understanding what X is).
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    • 2.Systematic rejection of all propositions dissolves the semantic content needed to parse any command as meaningful instruction.
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    • 3.Obedience entails adopting at least the proposition 'this imperative applies to me,' which the practice denies.
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