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    It is not the case that Kant's own formulations vary across the Groundwork, suggesting content-determination requires something beyond bare formal reason.

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    • 1.Variations across formulations demonstrate equivalence, not incompleteness: different expressions of the same principle need not show formal reason fails.
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    • 2.Kant explicitly claims the categorical imperative is a priori and self-sufficient; attributing hidden dependencies contradicts his philosophical project.
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    • 3.Empirical content can be excluded from justification while still being determined; form alone suffices if we properly apply universalizability tests.
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    • 1.Kant shifts between Formula of Humanity and Formula of Universal Law, indicating no single formulation fully determines moral content independently.
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    • 2.Pure practical reason alone cannot generate specific duties without appeal to rational nature, humanity, or empirical conditions of agency.
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    • 3.The Groundwork's progression itself reveals gaps: formal consistency permits multiple maxims, so additional material constraints must apply.
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