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    It is not the case that Light itself is incipient meaning, suspending the opposition between the a priori and the a posteriori

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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that the a priori/a posteriori distinction is logically prior to any phenomenological account of perceptual experience.
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    • 2.A phenomenological description of how light 'feels' meaningful cannot dissolve a transcendental distinction without first engaging its epistemic justification.
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    • 1.Sellars' critique of the Myth of the Given shows that treating perceptual immediacy as intrinsically meaningful conflates causal and normative orders.
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    • 2.If light carries incipient meaning pre-reflectively, Levinas must explain how this meaning is normatively binding without invoking the conceptual apparatus he claims to suspend.
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    • 1.Heidegger began a hermeneutic deformalizing of Husserl's phenomenological consciousness by seeking what lies hidden beneath phenomena
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    • 2.Levinas extended this deformalizing gesture in 1947 by arguing that meaning is embedded in perceptual experience itself
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