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    Association is inadequate for producing objectively valid representations of objects.

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    • 1.Association operates solely by resemblance, contiguity, and succession—Hume's own principles—which are patterns in subjective experience, not features of objects.
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    • 2.Hume himself conceded that causal necessity cannot be derived from association, yielding only constant conjunction, which undermines any claim to objective representation.
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    • 3.Without a rule binding representations to an object distinct from the sequence of impressions, association produces only a 'rhapsody of perceptions,' not cognition of objects.
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    • 1.Objective validity requires that a representation applies to an object necessarily for any rational subject, not merely for subjects who happen to share associative histories.
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    • 2.Associative patterns are biographically contingent: two subjects with different perceptual histories may associate identical sensory inputs differently, yielding divergent 'objects'.
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    • 3.A condition that yields divergent objects across subjects cannot be the ground of objective representation, since objectivity demands intersubjective invariance across all possible experiencers.
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    • 1.Objectively valid representations must be necessary and universal.
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    • 2.The empirical unity of consciousness, achieved through association, produces only non-universal, contingent orderings of representations.
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    • 3.Non-universal, contingent orderings are merely subjectively valid, not objectively valid.
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    For Kant, a defining feature of our representations of objects is their objective validity. For a representation to be objectively valid it must be a representation of an objective feature of reality, that is, a feature whose existence and nature is independent of how it is perceived (Guyer 1987:11–24). In this argument, it appears that Kant just assumes that the representations that make up experience are objectively valid. He then aims to establish that association is inadequate because it can
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