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    It is not the case that Dewey's account conflates the epistemic act of recognizing a weight with the metaphysical status of that weight, which can be objective and prior to any particular deliberative episode.

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    • 1.For Dewey, 'weight' is not a pre-existing metaphysical fact but emerges within the context of lived problematic situations and reflective inquiry.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'epistemic act' and 'metaphysical status' presupposes a mind-independent reality that Dewey's pragmatism deliberately challenges.
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    • 3.Calling this a 'conflation' misrepresents Dewey's position as category confusion rather than a coherent alternative epistemology-metaphysics relationship.
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    • 1.Epistemic acts (recognizing) are mental events occurring at specific times; metaphysical facts (weights existing) are independent of when we acknowledge them.
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    • 2.A weight's objective reality and causal powers exist prior to and independent of any agent's deliberative process about it.
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    • 3.Conflating recognition with reality leads to problematic consequences: the same weight couldn't have different objective values before and after deliberation.
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