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    It is not the case that The universal law formula is not derived from the principle of non-contradiction.

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    • 1.Kant's universalizability test functions by exposing performative contradictions, not merely logical contradictions in the formal sense.
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    • 2.Christine Korsgaard argues that practical contradictions—where a maxim defeats itself when universalized—are a species of contradiction Kant explicitly invokes.
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    • 3.If contradiction is understood broadly to include practical self-defeat, the ULF can be grounded in contradiction without reducing the CI to an analytic logical truth.
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    • 1.Leibniz and Wolff grounded moral principles in the principle of sufficient reason and non-contradiction, and Kant explicitly trained in this rationalist tradition.
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    • 2.Dieter Henrich has shown that Kant's early pre-critical ethics derived moral duties from the logical structure of rational willing, making contradiction central.
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    • 3.The residual rationalist scaffolding in the Groundwork suggests the ULF retains a structural dependence on contradiction even if Kant later disavowed purely analytic grounding.
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    • 1.If the universal law formula were derived from the principle of non-contradiction, then the Categorical Imperative would be a logical truth.
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    • 2.Kant insists that the Categorical Imperative is not a logical truth (or at least not analytic).
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