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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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