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    It is not the case that Being exhibits properties—contingency, resistance, opacity—that are irreducible to and independent of any cognitive or conceptual structure.

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    • 1.Any claim about being's properties is necessarily made within a conceptual framework; asserting independence presupposes the ability to step outside structure.
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    • 2.Contingency, resistance, and opacity are themselves concepts; their attribution to being already ensnares them in the cognitive structures they claim to transcend.
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    • 3.We lack access to being-in-itself independent of experience; appeals to mind-independent properties rely on an unverifiable metaphysical leap.
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    • 1.Physical systems exhibit causal powers (gravity, radioactive decay) that operate identically whether or not minds observe them.
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    • 2.We encounter genuine epistemic limits: some phenomena resist complete conceptualization, suggesting mind-independent recalcitrance.
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    • 3.If being were entirely concept-dependent, the history of science couldn't reveal surprising properties we didn't antecedently structure.
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