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    • 1.Cognitive categories are socio-historically acquired and vary across epochs
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    • 2.Different categories produce different modes of cognizing the world
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    • 1.Successful cross-epoch translation of scientific texts (e.g., Archimedes, Euclid) presupposes sufficient cognitive commensurability between historical periods.
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    • 2.Davidson's principle of charity requires attributing largely shared rational cognitive norms to any interpretable speaker, including those from past epochs.
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    • 3.Radical cognitive incommensurability across epochs would make historical understanding of past science impossible, yet such understanding is routinely achieved.
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    • 1.Core logical and mathematical structures (modus ponens, transitivity) are recognized as valid across all documented human cultures and epochs.
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    • 2.If fundamental inferential capacities are universal, epoch-relative variation is superficial content-change, not deep cognitive difference.
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    Hegel, one of the founders of the deep conception of historical change broadly characteristic of nineteenth-century German scholarship, proceeded to historicize Kant’s innovation, in effect by historicizing Kant’s categories. They are not inborn, permanent, and universal; on the contrary, they are socio-historically acquired or lost and hence differ from one historical epoch to another. People living in different epochs cognize the world differently. It is tempting to read the Kuhn of Structure
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