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    It is not the case that Chang's metrological regress argument shows that validating measurement standards requires prior measurements, producing circularity that is context-specific rather than universal.

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    • 1.Physical constants (speed of light, Planck's constant) provide non-circular anchors that break the regress without context-dependence.
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    • 2.If circularity were genuinely context-specific rather than structural, we could not predict measurements across different contexts consistently.
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    • 3.Chang conflates epistemological justification with ontological regress; measurement success suggests standards work despite justificatory circularity.
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    • 1.Measurement validation always depends on comparing against reference standards, which themselves require prior calibration against other standards.
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    • 2.Different experimental contexts genuinely require different standards; a universal hierarchy would oversimplify how measurement actually functions.
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    • 3.Recognizing context-specific circularity explains why physics successfully validates standards within domains without requiring an impossible foundational standard.
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