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    It is not the case that Transcendental arguments can demonstrate that certain beliefs are fundamental to our thinking and thus impervious to skeptical doubt

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    • 1.Transcendental arguments establish only that we must think in certain ways, not that the world must conform to those ways of thinking.
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    • 2.Stroud's critique shows this gap between subjective necessity and objective validity cannot be bridged without smuggling in verificationism.
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    • 3.A belief can be psychologically indispensable yet epistemically vulnerable if its indispensability merely reflects cognitive limitation rather than truth.
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    • 1.Kant's own transcendental idealism concedes that categories apply only to phenomena, leaving things-in-themselves beyond justified belief.
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    • 2.If the foundational move requires idealist constraints to work, transcendental arguments presuppose rather than defeat the skeptic's challenge about mind-independent reality.
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    • 1.Some beliefs are so fundamental that they cannot be dislodged by skeptical challenge
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    • 2.Transcendental arguments can reveal which beliefs are fundamental in this way
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    • 3.Showing a belief to be fundamental supports the naturalist claim that the belief is impervious to skeptical doubt
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