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    It is not the case that The classification of the error-term ε_s as environmental versus behavioral constraint depends on the goal of inquiry and what follows from the reclassification, not on any fixed conceptual boundary.

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    • 1.Quine's naturalized epistemology establishes that conceptual boundaries track causal-nomological joints in nature, not only pragmatic inquiry goals.
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    • 2.Biological constraints like perceptual thresholds have determinate causal roles that fix their classification prior to any investigator's purpose.
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    • 3.If ε_s causally originates in organism-environment co-evolution, its classification is partially determined by that etiology, not purely by goal-relative stipulation.
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    • 1.Strawson's descriptive metaphysics holds that some conceptual distinctions are constitutive of experience and resist revision by theoretical redescription.
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    • 2.The distinction between what an agent can do and what is done to an agent is a pre-theoretical condition for attributing moral responsibility, not a tool of inquiry.
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    • 3.Reclassifying ε_s as environmental when it tracks voluntary behavioral dispositions dissolves the very distinction that grounds responsibility attribution, making the claim self-undermining.
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    • 1.The lens model inherits from engineering (signal detection theory) a clean division between subject and environment.
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    • 2.The error-term ε_s may refer to biological constraints that are responses to adaptive pressures on the whole organism.
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    • 3.If the goal is to understand ecological validity, reclassifying ε_s as an environmental constraint would introduce confusion.
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