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    It is not the case that There are no universal rational norms that bind all rational agents

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    • 1.Rational agents, qua rational, are constitutively committed to consistency, non-contradiction, and means-end coherence regardless of contingent starting points.
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    • 2.These formal constraints generate substantive universal norms: an agent cannot rationally will a maxim whose universal adoption undermines the conditions of rational agency itself (Kant, Groundwork).
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    • 3.Therefore, at least one universal rational norm—respect for rational agency—binds all rational agents independently of their particular evaluative starting points.
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    • 1.The claim that all normative truth is relativized to a particular practical point of view is itself advanced as a universally binding claim about the nature of normativity.
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    • 2.This performative self-refutation—using a universal rational norm to deny universal rational norms—undermines the epistemic standing of the supporting arguments (cf. Korsgaard's critique of Humean constructivism).
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    • 1.The substantive content of a given agent's reasons is a function of that agent's particular, contingently given, evaluative starting points
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    • 2.Truth and falsity in the normative domain must always be relativized to a particular practical point of view
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