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    It is not the case that Full-fledged idealism about empirical reality is incompatible with metaepistemological realism.

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    • 1.Kantian transcendental idealism holds that empirical reality is mind-structured yet objective within the phenomenal domain.
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    • 2.Epistemic norms governing phenomenal experience can obtain with full necessity and universality without requiring mind-independence of noumena.
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    • 3.Therefore, idealism about empirical reality is compatible with realism about epistemic facts within the transcendental framework Kant establishes.
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    • 1.Berkeleyan idealism grounds empirical regularities in God's consistent perceptual activity, preserving intersubjective objectivity.
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    • 2.Metaepistemological realism requires only that epistemic facts be non-arbitrary and agent-independent, not that they transcend all minds.
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    • 3.A divine mind sustaining empirical reality satisfies the agent-independence condition metaepistemological realism actually demands.
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    • 1.Metaepistemological realism holds that epistemic facts obtain mind-independently.
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    • 2.Full-fledged idealism entails that empirical reality is internal to the mind.
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    • 3.If empirical reality is entirely internal to the mind, no epistemic facts can obtain mind-independently.
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