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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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