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    Supports→The universal law formula is not derived from the principle of non-contradiction.

    If the universal law formula were derived from the principle of non-contradiction, then the Categorical Imperative would be a logical truth.

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    Perhaps, then, if the formulas are not equivalent in meaning, they are nevertheless logically interderivable and hence equivalent in this sense. The universal law formula is not itself derived, as some of Kant’s interpreters have suggested, from the principle of non-contradiction. That would have the consequence that the CI is a logical truth, and Kant insists that it is not or at least that it is not analytic. Since the CI formulas are not logical truths, then, it is possible that they could be

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