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    It is not the case that Judgment is objectively rather than subjectively valid, and therefore exhibits universality and necessity.

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    • 1.Hume's naturalism shows that what appears as necessary judgment is merely habitual psychological association projected onto experience.
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    • 2.If necessity is a product of cognitive habit rather than a priori structure, objective validity collapses into a sophisticated form of subjective validity.
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    • 3.Kant's response presupposes the very categorial framework whose objectivity is in question, rendering the argument circular.
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    • 1.Quine's critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction undermines the a priori status Kant assigns to the categories grounding objective judgment.
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    • 2.Without a defensible a priori/empirical boundary, universality and necessity become matters of degree within a web of belief, not categorical properties of judgment.
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    • 1.Objective validity is characterized by universality and necessity.
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    • 2.Judgment is objectively valid rather than merely subjectively valid (B142).
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