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    Supports→The first horn of Hume's dilemma does not definitively preclude an a priori argument for inductive inference

    A transcendental argument establishing uniformity as constitutive of experience would be demonstrative yet immune to Hume's conceivability objection.

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    • 1.Transcendental arguments identify conditions necessarily presupposed by experience itself, not merely conceivable alternatives.
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    • 2.Uniformity is constitutive of experience: without it, sensory data lacks the minimal coherence required for any representation.
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    • 3.Hume's conceivability objection fails because conceiving a world without uniformity doesn't show non-uniformity is genuinely possible—only that imagination outpaces rational constraints.
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    • 1.Transcendental arguments prove only what's necessary for *our* experience, not that uniformity is constitutive of experience itself.
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    • 2.The claim conflates psychological necessity (what we must assume) with metaphysical necessity (what must actually obtain).
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    • 3.Even if uniformity conditions our cognition, this doesn't immunize the argument from Hume's core point: we can still conceive alternatives without logical contradiction.
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