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    It is not the case that The axioms of philosophy cannot be investigated using the genetic (empirical) method

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    • 1.Quine's naturalized epistemology demonstrates that normative epistemic standards can be continuous with, and revisable by, empirical inquiry.
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    • 2.If normativity itself has a causal-historical genesis (as evolutionary epistemology argues), the genetic method illuminates rather than bypasses axiological foundations.
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    • 3.The Neo-Kantian sharp divide between normative validity and empirical genesis presupposes a fact/value dichotomy that post-Quinean philosophy has substantially undermined.
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    • 1.Husserl's genetic phenomenology shows that even transcendental structures of consciousness have a developmental history accessible through rigorous descriptive method.
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    • 2.The Neo-Kantian claim conflates the logical independence of a norm's validity with the epistemic inaccessibility of its origin to any systematic investigation.
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    • 1.The axioms of philosophy are principles that must have normative force for a normal consciousness to exist
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    • 2.A normal consciousness, inasmuch as it embodies a norm, is not an empirically real subject
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    • 3.The genetic method investigates empirically real subjects
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