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    Absolute idealism is true — there exists a single trans-historical corporate mind of which particular finite minds are proper parts.

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    • 1.Knowledge and inquiry presuppose the possibility of error, including systematic error within an individual's conscious experience.
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    • 2.The idealist explains local individual error against the background of larger patterns in that individual's experience.
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    • 3.By the same logic, systematic individual error must be explained against the background of some larger pattern of experience beyond the individual.
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    • 1.The inference from 'error requires a wider experiential context' to 'a single unified mind' commits a non-sequitur: social and intersubjective correction suffices.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that shared normative practices among distinct agents ground truth conditions without requiring merger into one consciousness.
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    • 3.Positing a single corporate mind inflates ontology beyond explanatory necessity, violating parsimony when pluralist accounts of shared normativity already do the required work.
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    • 1.If finite minds are genuine proper parts of the Absolute, they must possess some degree of independent existence, but genuine independence is incompatible with being a mere part of one mind.
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    • 2.Bradley's own regress argument shows that relations between parts and wholes either generate vicious infinite regresses or collapse into the identity of relata, undermining the coherence of 'corporate mind with finite parts'.
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    Green’s main argument for this form of absolute idealism seems to be his concern with the possibility of error (PE §26). Just as we must make room for the possibility of local error in an individual’s conscious experience, so too we have to allow for the possibility of systematic error within an individual’s conscious experience. But just as the idealist explains the possibility of local individual error against the background of larger patterns in the individual’s experience, so too she must ex
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    Positing a single corporate mind inflates ontology beyond explanatory necessity,...
    The experiences of other individuals cannot, as such, form a common and larger s...
    The idealist explains local individual error against the background of larger pa...
    The inference from 'error requires a wider experiential context' to 'a single un...
    This larger pattern of experience must lie outside individual consciousness.
    Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that shared normative practice...
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