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    It is not the case that Strawson's 'Bounds of Sense' argues that meaningful thought requires applicability conditions that are not merely subjective but track structural features of reality.

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    • 1.The claim conflates 'structural features we can access' with 'features independent of all possible cognition'—a gap Strawson never adequately closes.
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    • 2.Mathematics and logic have applicability conditions that are structural yet arguably non-empirical; this complicates the reality-tracking requirement.
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    • 3.Strawson assumes coherence between human cognitive structure and reality's structure, but offers no principled argument against this being coincidental.
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    • 1.Thoughts about objects require stable, publicly accessible referents; pure subjectivity cannot ground meaningful discourse about shared reality.
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    • 2.Kant's categories (space, time, causality) structure both cognition and experience, enabling thoughts to track objective features, not mere appearances.
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    • 3.If applicability conditions were purely subjective, we couldn't explain why some thoughts succeed at representing while others systematically fail.
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