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    It is not the case that The forms of atomic facts may potentially be known a posteriori

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    • 1.Kant argues that the logical forms of judgment are pure categories of the understanding, knowable only through transcendental reflection, not empirical observation.
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    • 2.If atomic forms structure all possible experience, they cannot themselves be encountered as objects within experience, making a posteriori discovery self-undermining.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein in the Tractatus holds that logical form cannot be said but only shown, placing it beyond any empirical proposition's descriptive reach.
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    • 2.Any purported a posteriori discovery of atomic forms would itself presuppose those forms, rendering the epistemic procedure viciously circular.
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    • 1.It is not impossible that actual analysis could discover atomic propositions
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    • 2.Atomic propositions may be found to conform to forms expressible as R1(x), R2(x,y), R3(x,y,z), …
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    • 3.The impossibility of a priori knowledge of atomic forms does not entail the impossibility of empirical discovery
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