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    A reductio that depends on the very cognitive continuity ... — Carmelics
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    A reductio that depends on the very cognitive continuity it denies is self-undermining as an account of what grounds the analytical enterprise itself.

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    • 1.Self-refuting arguments require the arguer to presuppose what they deny, making them performatively incoherent.
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    • 2.Analysis itself depends on sustained mental identity across premise-evaluation to conclusion-drawing.
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    • 3.A reductio denying cognitive continuity undermines its own validity as a rational proof.
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    • 1.A reductio can be valid even if the targeted position is self-undermining; validity doesn't require the arguer's position to be sound.
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    • 2.Cognitive continuity for *analysis* may differ from continuity of the *self*—conflating them begs the question.
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    • 3.Some reductios merely show a position is absurd without requiring the reductionist to endorse an alternative view.
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