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    It is not the case that The modern imposition of continental identity onto ancient civilizations is a widely accepted and often unremarked practice.

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    • 1.Historiographers of philosophy like Garfield and Van Norden have explicitly critiqued the category 'Asian philosophy' as an artificial Western grouping.
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    • 2.The existence of published critiques of these continental impositions demonstrates the practice is neither unremarked nor unchallenged in serious scholarship.
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    • 3.A practice that has generated substantial critical literature cannot coherently be described as 'widely unremarked.'
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    • 1.Classicists and ancient historians routinely distinguish between Greek, Roman, and Hellenistic identities rather than collapsing them into a monolithic 'Western' category.
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    • 2.The premise that Western philosophy is 'commonly assumed' to have organic coherence misrepresents a field where periodization disputes are foundational methodological debates.
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    • 1.Studies of Asian philosophy routinely apply the category 'Asian' to ancient civilizations that predate that concept.
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    • 2.Western philosophy is commonly assumed to have organic coherence from ancient Greece through modern Germany.
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    • 3.These impositions of continental identity proceed typically without critical comment.
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