A reference-point standard grounded in chronological priority rather than authorial intention or optimal condition cannot adjudicate perceptual disputes without begging the normative question.

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1.Chronological priority is purely factual and independent of interpretive bias, unlike intention or optimality which require contested inference.
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2.Any non-chronological standard must justify why some normative criterion (intention, perfection) should govern disputes, thereby assuming what needs proof.
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3.Perceptual disagreements require an external adjudicator; only chronological facts escape the circularity of parties defending their own interpretations.
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1.Chronological priority begs the question equally by assuming temporal sequence alone determines correctness without defending that normative assumption.
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2.Some perceptual disputes concern which account best explains evidence; chronological order is irrelevant to explanatory power or evidential coherence.
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3.Authorial intention provides empirical guidance for meaning; dismissing it as normative conflates the descriptive question of intent with normative authority.
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Adjudicate(describing what functionalism can or cannot do regarding the disagreement): To judge, decide, or settle a dispute between two competing views.
Authorial intention(as used in literary theory and philosophy of language): What the author meant to communicate or express when they wrote something, including their purpose, goals, and the meanings they wanted readers to take away.
Begging the normative question(as used in logical fallacies and normative theory): Trying to prove a point about how things *should* be by already assuming that very point is true—a logical mistake that doesn't actually prove anything.
Chronological priority(as used in justifying standards or rules): The idea that something that came first in time is more important or has more authority than things that came later.
Normative question(as contrasted with genetic questions about causation): A question about what should be true or what counts as right, proper, or justified—as opposed to what actually is the case.
Optimal condition(as used in normative standards): The best or most ideal state or circumstances for something to be judged or evaluated.
Perceptual disputes(as used in epistemology and theory of perception): Disagreements between people about what they see, hear, or experience through their senses.
Reference-point standard(as used in epistemology and standards of judgment): A rule or measure that uses a specific thing (the reference point) as the basis for making judgments or decisions about other things.

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