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    It is not the case that Kant's move from 'must presuppose freedom' to 'is bound by autonomy's laws' smuggles a normative conclusion from a merely descriptive necessity.

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    • 1.For rational agents, the conditions for understanding action just are the conditions that make action intelligible as normative.
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    • 2.Recognizing that we must presuppose autonomy isn't descriptive neutrality—it already acknowledges our rational nature as binding.
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    • 3.Kant's conclusion follows if 'must presuppose freedom' means freedom is constitutive of rational agency itself, not merely believed.
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    • 1.Transcendental conditions (what we must presuppose) describe epistemic limits, not metaphysical facts that generate obligations.
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    • 2.A descriptive claim about human cognition cannot logically entail normative claims about how agents ought to act.
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    • 3.Kant conflates 'we must conceive ourselves as free' with 'we are genuinely free' to derive binding moral law.
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