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    A thesis that is merely causal-genetic cannot account for... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→More ambitious arguments for meaning, thought, and selfhood being strongly socially constituted may not succeed, and Herder's original empirical-causal version may be the correct one.

    A thesis that is merely causal-genetic cannot account for the modal force of semantic content, leaving Herder's version explanatorily weaker, not more defensible.

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