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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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