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    Challenges→Transcendental arguments that show what we must believe have anti-skeptical value even without proving truth

    Stroud (1968) argued that transcendental arguments only establish correlations between concepts, not between concepts and mind-independent reality.

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    • 1.Transcendental arguments derive conclusions from conceptual analysis alone, without empirical access to mind-independent reality.
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    • 2.If we cannot step outside our conceptual framework to compare it with reality itself, correlations between concepts are all we can establish.
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    • 3.Kant's own framework shows that synthetic a priori knowledge concerns how concepts must relate, not how things-in-themselves actually are.
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    • 1.Establishing that concept X is necessary for concept Y being intelligible still explains why our experience has that structure in reality.
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    • 2.Stroud conflates epistemological access to reality with metaphysical facts about what conditions reality must satisfy for our cognition.
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    • 3.If transcendental arguments only establish correlations, they cannot explain why alternative conceptual schemes are actually impossible.
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