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    If moral principles must cohere with considered judgments... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The categorical imperative must be discovered a priori through reason, not through experience.

    If moral principles must cohere with considered judgments about particular cases, then experiential data partially constitutes, not merely applies, the moral law.

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    • 1.Moral principles divorced from actual human experience risk becoming vacuous abstractions incapable of guiding real conduct.
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    • 2.Reflective equilibrium requires bidirectional constraint: principles shape judgments and judgments reshape principles, making experience constitutive.
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    • 3.If considered judgments about cases can rationally override principles, those judgments contribute substantive content to moral truth itself.
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    • 1.Coherence with judgments is a justification test for principles, not evidence that experience constitutes moral law itself.
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    • 2.Moral laws could exist independently and determine which experiential judgments are correct—making experience contingently applicable, not constitutive.
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    • 3.Confusing epistemic dependence on experience with ontological constitution of morality commits the genetic fallacy.
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