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    The argument from universality and necessity has anti-associationist force, even if it is not fully decisive on its own

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    • 1.Associationism relies on sensory experience to explain universalities and necessities
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    • 2.Sensory experience may be sufficiently uniform for association to produce some universalities and necessities
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    • 3.Kant may be too quick to conclude that the argument from universality and necessity alone defeats associationism
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    • 1.Hume's associationism in the Treatise already accounts for necessary-seeming connections via 'custom and habit' without invoking pure concepts.
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    • 2.The felt compulsion of causal inference, for Hume, produces functionally universal judgments across all normal cognitive agents without requiring a priori categories.
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    • 3.If associationism can explain the psychological universality and necessity Kant observes, the argument from those features underdetermines the transcendental idealist conclusion.
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    • 1.Contemporary empiricist accounts, particularly Quine's naturalized epistemology, reframe 'necessity' as deeply entrenched empirical belief, dissolving the Kantian contrast.
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    • 2.If necessity admits of a gradient rather than a categorical distinction from contingency, Kant's argument from necessity loses its anti-associationist asymmetry.
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    The associationist might counter that sensory experience is sufficiently uniform for association to produce the universalities and necessities at issue. Perhaps Kant is too quick to conclude that the argument from universality and necessity is decisive, for in addition, associationist objections of this sort must be answered – as contemporary critical discussions of proposals for innate concepts indicate (Pereboom 1995: 31–3). But this does not detract from the anti-associationist force provided
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