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    Kant's argument for a priori synthesis can be advanced by appealing to features of the unity of experience that render an empiricist account inadequate

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    • 1.The recognition of unity may have features that empirical information and introspective experience alone cannot account for
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    • 2.Kant employs this tactic in the next phase of the argument through his account of representations of objects
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory explains experiential unity through associative habits and custom without invoking transcendental categories.
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    • 2.The felt coherence of experience can be accounted for by psychological regularities, not logical necessities of a priori synthesis.
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    • 3.Kant conflates the normative question of how experience ought to be unified with the descriptive question of how it is actually unified.
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    • 1.Quine's naturalized epistemology shows that the analytic/synthetic distinction underlying Kant's a priori synthesis is untenable.
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    • 2.If no statement is immune to empirical revision, then supposedly a priori synthetic judgments are merely entrenched empirical beliefs, not necessary conditions of experience.
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    Premise (1) is intended as a claim the skeptic about the legitimate applicability of a priori concepts will at least initially accept. The crucial necessary conditions, expressed by (3) and (7), are necessary conditions of only possible explanation. However, Paul Guyer forcefully argues that establishing the need for synthesis by means of a priori concepts would require ruling out the alternative explanation that empirical information and concepts derived from it is sufficient to account for the
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