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    Transcendental arguments must not rely on merely causal or natural necessity claims

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    • 1.Transcendental arguments target skeptics who challenge all empirical knowledge
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    • 2.Empirical observations of causal necessity (e.g., light and sound transmission wavelengths) cannot be used against a skeptic for whom all empirical knowledge is in question
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    • 3.A position that is less open to empirical doubt is required when arguing against such a skeptic
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    • 1.Strawson's 'descriptive metaphysics' grounds transcendental arguments in our actual conceptual scheme, which is itself causally shaped by evolved cognition.
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    • 2.If causal-naturalist accounts of concept formation (as in Quine's naturalized epistemology) are correct, then transcendental necessity and natural necessity cannot be cleanly separated.
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    • 3.A transcendental argument that presupposes causally-grounded concepts cannot coherently exclude causal necessity from its own justificatory structure.
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    • 1.Hilary Putnam's externalist semantics entails that the content of our concepts is partly constituted by causal relations to the world, not purely by internal rational structure.
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    • 2.If conceptual content is causally constituted, then arguments about what must be presupposed for coherent thought necessarily invoke causal-natural facts.
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    4. Transcendental arguments involve transcendental claims, to the effect that X is a necessary condition for the possibility of Y, where in saying this, the arguments do not assume this to be a matter of merely causal or natural necessity. Given that their target is the skeptic who challenges our claims about the world, there are clearly two good reasons for this. First, although our observation of the world might suggest that experience has certain necessary causal conditions (e.g., light and s
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