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    It is not the case that Radical skepticism about external reality severs any such bridging claim, reducing Shaftesbury's 'demonstrations of reason' to coherence within a potentially fictive system that carries no genuine obligatory force.

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    • 1.Radical skeptics still presuppose logical and conceptual constraints—these internal structures can ground normativity without external grounding.
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    • 2.Obligatory force may arise from rational consistency and coherence itself, not requiring metaphysical realism about external facts.
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    • 3.Shaftesbury's system can bind agents through shared rational architecture without needing correspondence to reality external to reason.
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    • 1.If external reality is radically unknowable, rational systems cannot derive binding obligations from supposed facts about that reality.
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    • 2.Coherence within a closed logical system does not constitute genuine normativity unless grounded in mind-independent facts.
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    • 3.Shaftesbury's moral demonstrations assume realist metaphysical foundations that radical skepticism precisely undermines.
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