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    It is not the case that The performative impossibility of abandoning a framework does not entail the logical incoherence of skeptical doubt about its constitutive procedures, since practical and semantic incoherence are distinct.

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    • 1.If a framework constitutes the very conditions for meaningful doubt, then doubting those conditions undermines the intelligibility of the doubt itself.
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    • 2.The distinction between practical and semantic incoherence collapses when the framework in question structures semantic content itself.
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    • 3.Acknowledging performative impossibility while maintaining logical coherence may simply mask rather than resolve the underlying tension.
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    • 1.Practical constraints (we must use language to doubt language) differ fundamentally from logical contradictions in propositional content.
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    • 2.Semantic coherence concerns truth conditions; performative coherence concerns action consistency. These are orthogonal properties.
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    • 3.We can coherently express doubt about a framework's foundations while necessarily operating within it—like questioning physics while using math.
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