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    Supports→If Protagoras genuinely believes in relativism, arguing for relativism is incoherent

    Arguing for relativism pragmatically presupposes a framework-transcendent norm of rational persuasion that relativism's content explicitly denies.

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    • 1.Relativists use arguments designed to persuade, implying they believe some reasoning is better than others across frameworks.
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    • 2.If all norms are framework-relative, relativists cannot justify why their audience should adopt their framework over alternatives.
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    • 3.The act of argumentation itself presupposes that truth-tracking rationality exists independent of any particular framework.
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    • 1.A relativist can argue persuasively within a shared framework without claiming transcendent norms exist outside all frameworks.
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    • 2.Distinguishing between framework-internal rationality and framework-transcendent rationality dissolves the pragmatic contradiction.
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    • 3.Using arguments to persuade assumes only that communication works, not that a universal standard of truth exists beyond frameworks.
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