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    Challenges→You must value your humanity (rational nature) in order to see value in having a particular practical identity

    Therefore, the normative force of practical identity is derived from historically embedded practices, making valuation of rational nature explanatorily derivative, not foundational.

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    Explanatorily derivative(describes how rational nature depends on practical identity, not the reverse)
    Something that can be explained by pointing to something else more basic—it's not the real source of the explanation but rather depends on that deeper source.
    Foundational(as the opposite of what cross-individual coordination is claimed to be)
    Serving as a basic starting point or fundamental building block from which other things are derived or built upon.
    Historically embedded practices(explains where practical identity comes from)
    Ways of doing things and valuing things that have grown out of actual human communities and traditions over time, rather than being invented by individual thinkers.
    normative force(Used to describe what Korsgaard's account aims to explain)
    The property in virtue of which an agent's reasons are binding on the agent.

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    practical identity(Korsgaard's transcendental argument for valuing oneself as a rational agent)
    The distinctive nature of a person as an agent, which may include roles such as being a parent or a philosophy professor
    rational nature(Used to ground the normative claim that humans ought to align their choices with what this rational nature tends toward.)
    The overarching order or system of which rational beings (humans) are parts, characterized by purposive, goal-directed structure.
    valuation(supervaluationist logic applied to category mistakes)
    An assignment of the values true/false to each atomic sentence, where unproblematic instances receive truth values as usual and category mistakes are assigned an arbitrary truth value.

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