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    Challenges→Kant's argument for a priori synthesis can be advanced by appealing to features of the unity of experience that render an empiricist account inadequate

    The felt coherence of experience can be accounted for by psychological regularities, not logical necessities of a priori synthesis.

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    • 1.Neuroscience shows brain regularities (neural binding, predictive coding) explain experiential unity without invoking a priori structures.
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    • 2.Empirical learning and evolutionary adaptation can account for coherence patterns; logical necessity cannot explain contingent variations.
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    • 3.Psychological regularities are simpler and more parsimonious than positing transcendental synthetic a priori conditions.
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    • 1.Psychological regularities themselves require explanation; they cannot ground the unity that makes their own coherence possible.
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    • 2.Mere contingent regularities cannot account for necessary structural features of experience, like the mandatory spatio-temporal form of all intuitions.
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    • 3.The claim conflates causal explanation of experience with logical justification for why experience must have coherent structure at all.
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