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    It is not the case that If the Concept governs the structure of thought rather than constituting the being of objects, radical conceptualism need not entail idealism in any robust metaphysical sense.

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    • 1.If concepts govern all thought-structures, we cannot coherently reference or compare thought's structure to unconceptualized reality itself.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'governing thought' and 'constituting being' becomes pragmatically empty if all our access to objects is conceptually mediated.
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    • 3.Denying conceptual constitution of objects while asserting conceptual governance of all thought smuggles in a mysterious unconceptualized remainder.
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    • 1.Concepts can organize epistemic access to objects without determining their intrinsic nature or existence independent of thought.
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    • 2.A distinction between conceptual mediation of knowledge and metaphysical constitution of reality avoids collapsing ontology into epistemology.
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    • 3.Kant's synthetic a priori shows structural governance can be mind-dependent while objects retain transcendental reality beyond concepts.
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