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    Challenges→Free moral choice in the noumenal realm must nonetheless be capable of transforming the natural phenomenal world into a moral world.

    Therefore the supporting argument conflates the practical necessity of moral realizability with a metaphysical claim about noumenal causal efficacy that exceeds what practical reason warrants.

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    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    causal efficacy(Vaibhāṣika causal theory of cognition)
    The capacity of an object to serve as a real cause, which nonexistent objects are held to lack
    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
    moral realizability(about whether ethical rules can be practically followed)
    The idea that moral principles need to be actually achievable or doable by real people in the real world.
    noumenal(Kantian concept)

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    The world beyond, of which we cannot speak or know directly
    practical necessity(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Something that must be true because we need it to be true to function in everyday life, regardless of whether it's philosophically 'real.'
    practical reason(Kantian moral philosophy)
    The rational faculty by which agents determine what is morally valuable and impose the moral law upon themselves.

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