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    Strict universality indicates a special source of cognition — a faculty of a priori cognition — distinct from empirical sources.

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    • 1.Empirical universality is merely an arbitrary augmentation from 'valid in most cases' to 'valid in all cases'.
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    • 2.Where strict universality essentially belongs to a judgment, it cannot be accounted for by empirical augmentation.
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    • 3.A judgment that essentially requires strict universality must therefore derive from a non-empirical, a priori cognitive faculty.
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    • 1.Strict universality in judgments can be explained as a cognitive habit formed by sufficiently uniform and repeated experience, as Hume argued in the Treatise.
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    • 2.The inference from 'we cannot imagine an exception' to 'no exception is possible' conflates psychological necessity with logical or ontological necessity.
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    • 3.If psychological compulsion suffices to explain our commitment to universal causal claims, positing a separate a priori faculty is an unnecessary ontological multiplication.
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    • 1.W.V.O. Quine's holism demonstrates that no judgment is immune to revision in light of experience, dissolving the analytic/synthetic and a priori/a posteriori distinctions Kant relies upon.
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    • 2.If strict universality is revisable under extreme empirical pressure, as scientific history shows with Newtonian mechanics, it does not indicate a categorically distinct cognitive source.
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    Experience never gives its judgments true or strict, but merely assumed or comparative universality (through induction), so that, properly speaking, it must be formulated: so far as we have observed until now, no exception has been found to this or that rule. If, therefore, a judgment is thought with strict universality, i.e., so that no exception at all is allowed to be possible, then it is not derived from experience, but is valid absolutely a priori. Empirical universality is thus only an arb
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