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    Idealism cannot be shown to be superior to realism, dogmatism, or materialism on rational grounds alone.

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    • 1.Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' demonstrates that both idealism and realism rest on transcendental assumptions that precede and condition rational justification itself.
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    • 2.If the very categories through which we assess rational superiority are themselves products of the idealist-realist dispute, no neutral rational tribunal can adjudicate between them.
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    • 3.Fichte's recognition that the Wissenschaftslehre's founding posit of the absolute 'I' requires intellectual intuition rather than discursive proof confirms that idealism's ground is pre-rational.
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    • 1.Agrippan trilemma-style regress arguments, as developed by Sextus Empiricus and revived in Neurath and Quine, show that any foundational metaphysical commitment terminates in brute assertion rather than demonstration.
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    • 2.Sellars's critique of the 'Myth of the Given' establishes that neither mind-dependent nor mind-independent starting points can be derived from experience without presupposing the very framework under dispute.
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    • 1.The concept of a 'Subject-Object' — a whole prior to and constitutive of its elements — cannot be defended by rational means.
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    • 2.Without a rational basis for the 'Subject-Object', there is no rational way to decide which of idealism and its opposites is to be favored over the other.
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    • 3.Both idealism and dogmatism have the status of mere proclamations or assurances, making them equipollent.
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    But does the acceptance of such a methodological recipe as a means by which to transcend oppositions in order to solve the problem of one-sidedness not just give rise to a justification of an idealism that is not just a one-sided alternative to realism/dogmatism/materialism? It appears that on the basis of this methodological device two sensible options are available both of which do not settle the question of superiority. However, whereas the first option leads to a negative result regarding th
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