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    It is not the case that If perceptions carry no intrinsic warrant beyond their phenomenal character, constitutional compulsion cannot elevate them to epistemic authority.

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    • 1.Constitutional authority may establish reliable procedures for perception-formation rather than claiming phenomenal character itself warrants belief.
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    • 2.Intrinsic warrant is distinct from justification via systems; constitutional processes can provide extrinsic warrant independent of phenomenal content.
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    • 3.The claim conflates perceptual content with perceptual justification—institutional elevation addresses the latter, not the former.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Phenomenal character alone (how things feel) cannot distinguish between veridical and illusory perceptions.
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    • 2.Constitutional authority is a normative status that cannot be derived from non-normative phenomenal properties.
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    • 3.Legal or institutional mandate cannot override the basic epistemological problem that subjective experience lacks self-validating force.
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