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    The Port-Royal logicians conflate the genetic question of... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Most human errors in reasoning stem from false principles rather than from invalid inference

    The Port-Royal logicians conflate the genetic question of error's origin with the normative question of error's logical type, which are distinct inquiries.

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    • 1.Causal origin and logical structure are ontologically distinct categories requiring separate analytical frameworks.
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    • 2.Port-Royal texts show conflation: explaining error's psychological source while making claims about its formal properties.
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    • 3.Understanding how error arises psychologically cannot determine which logical category (equivocation, begging question, etc.) it instantiates.
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    • 1.Port-Royal logicians deliberately integrated genetic and normative dimensions as unified epistemological inquiry, not confused conflation.
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    • 2.How errors originate in human cognition logically constrains which error-types are possible, making separation artificial.
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    • 3.The distinction itself may be anachronistic: Port-Royal's framework antedates modern analytic separation of these concerns.
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