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    It is not the case that Kant's Groundwork demonstrates that rejecting the categorical imperative generates a performative contradiction in the very act of rational deliberation.

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    • 1.Instrumental reasoning (hypothetical imperatives) doesn't require universalizability; one can rationally deliberate about means without categorical constraints.
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    • 2.A person can coherently reject universalization as a requirement while still engaging in practical deliberation—they simply accept agent-relative reasons.
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    • 3.The claim that rational deliberation *requires* universalizability begs the question against non-Kantian accounts of rationality and practical reasoning.
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    • 1.Rational deliberation requires treating one's reasons as universalizable; otherwise they're arbitrary preferences, not genuine reasons.
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    • 2.Rejecting the categorical imperative while claiming to deliberate rationally assumes one's maxim needn't be universalizable—a self-undermining position.
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    • 3.Anyone who reasons presupposes their reasoning applies to rational agents generally, not just themselves—the core of Kantian universalization.
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