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    It is not the case that Transcendental arguments aimed at constitutive rather than epistemic conclusions—establishing what must be the case for experience, not what we can know—do not require the idealist supplement Stroud demands.

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    • 1.Claiming something is constitutive for experience still requires justifying why that necessity holds—which raises the same epistemological challenges Stroud identified.
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    • 2.Without the idealist supplement, we cannot rule out that our constitutive structures merely reflect our cognitive architecture, not reality's actual requirements.
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    • 3.The distinction between constitutive and epistemic conclusions collapses when explaining why constitutive claims about experience should convince us about metaphysics.
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    • 1.Constitutive claims about necessary conditions for experience differ logically from epistemic claims about knowability.
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    • 2.Stroud's idealist supplement assumes we must validate transcendental arguments through mind-independent reality—but constitutive arguments don't need this validation.
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    • 3.If space is necessarily presupposed by all human experience, that constitutive truth holds regardless of whether we know reality-in-itself exists.
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