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    Challenges→Transcendental arguments must not rely on merely natural necessity claims

    The relevant modal force for transcendental arguments is intra-framework necessity: what must hold given our cognitive constitution, not metaphysical necessity.

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    • 1.Transcendental arguments explain why certain concepts are indispensable for any possible cognizer with our type of mind, not for all conceivable minds.
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    • 2.Intra-framework necessity captures what Kant actually argued: conditions necessary for experience-as-we-structure-it, avoiding unwarranted metaphysical claims.
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    • 3.Different cognitive architectures could operate with radically different categorical frameworks, so only framework-relative necessity is defensible.
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    • 1.If necessity is merely intra-framework, it becomes contingent on the framework itself; this shifts the burden to justify why that framework obtains.
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    • 2.Transcendental arguments lose their traditional philosophical power if they don't establish something about reality itself, not just human cognition.
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    • 3.Framework-relative necessity may be too weak to resolve genuine philosophical disagreements where disputants operate within different cognitive frameworks.
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