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    It is not the case that An object of cognition must exhibit the conceptual characteristics of universality and singularity in order to be an epistemic object.

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    • 1.McDowell's reading of Sellars shows that non-conceptual perceptual states can stand in rational relations to beliefs, granting them epistemic standing prior to full conceptualization.
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    • 2.If the given of sensory experience constrains conceptual judgment from outside the conceptual order, then an object can be epistemically operative before exhibiting universality and singularity.
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    • 3.This directly undermines P2 by showing knowability does not require that objects already conform to the subject's conceptual equipment.
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    • 1.Quine's naturalized epistemology demonstrates that knowledge can be grounded in causal-physical relations without requiring conceptual universality imposed by subjects.
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    • 2.If stimulus-response patterns in organisms constitute proto-knowledge without Kantian categories, then universality and singularity are not necessary conditions for epistemic objects.
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    • 1.The subject provides the conceptual characteristics of universality (Allgemeinheit) and singularity (Einzelnheit).
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    • 2.For an object to be knowable, it must exhibit the conceptual features that the subject is equipped to determine.
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