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    It is not the case that Foucault's counter-argument targets only the empirical-psychological reading of the cogito, leaving the transcendental version, defended by Husserl and Sartre, largely untouched.

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    • 1.The empirical-transcendental distinction itself becomes unstable once Foucault historicizes the subject; no clean separation survives his critique.
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    • 2.Sartre's transcendental cogito depends on intentional consciousness as lived experience, collapsing the empirical-transcendental boundary Foucault exploits.
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    • 3.If the cogito is constituted historically, even its transcendental claim to necessity becomes contingent—Foucault's position undermines transcendental immunity.
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    • 1.Foucault's critique in The Order of Things targets the cogito as empirical foundation for knowledge, not transcendental conditions of possibility.
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    • 2.Husserl and Sartre explicitly bracket empirical psychology to defend the cogito as transcendental, making them logically distinct targets.
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    • 3.Foucault's own genealogical method presupposes some form of transcendental structure, suggesting he accepts rather than refutes it.
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