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    Supports→Transcendental arguments directed against skepticism must begin from first-personal experience rather than extra-personal entities

    A transcendental argument against skepticism requires an uncontentious starting point

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    3. Because of the need to find an uncontentious starting point, transcendental arguments will also then characteristically be first personal, by beginning from how I or we experience, think, judge, and so on. Thus, while it is perhaps reasonable to hold that there are necessary conditions for the possibility of ‘extra-personal’ entities such as material objects, substances, the universe, time and so on, a transcendental argument which is directed against skepticism is unlikely to be concerned wi

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