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    Transcendental arguments must not rely on merely natural ... — Carmelics
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    Transcendental arguments must not rely on merely natural necessity claims

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    • 1.If a transcendental argument's claim is one of only natural necessity, then there are possible worlds (e.g., where the laws of physics do not hold) in which the claim is false
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    • 2.If there are possible worlds in which the claim is false, the skeptic can challenge whether we are in such a world
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    • 3.A transcendental argument must be immune to the skeptical challenge of showing we are not in an abnormal possible world
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    • 1.Strawson's transcendental arguments in 'Individuals' operate within a single framework of experience without appealing to logical necessity across all possible worlds.
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    • 2.The relevant modal force for transcendental arguments is intra-framework necessity: what must hold given our cognitive constitution, not metaphysical necessity.
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    • 3.If transcendental arguments only need to defeat skepticism within the actual framework of human experience, natural necessity scoped to that framework is sufficient.
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    • 1.Quine's critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction undermines the sharp boundary between natural and logical necessity that the supporting argument presupposes.
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    • 2.If natural and logical necessity lie on a continuum rather than being categorically distinct, excluding natural necessity claims arbitrarily weakens transcendental arguments without principled justification.
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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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