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    It is not the case that Transferring properties from abstract arguments to token mental events conflates the normative and descriptive dimensions of reasoning, as Frege warned against psychologism.

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    • 1.Token mental events instantiate abstract properties; describing this instantiation doesn't conflate normativity with description.
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    • 2.We can study how brains *implement* normative standards without reducing those standards to mere neural activity—levels of analysis differ.
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    • 3.Cognitive science successfully uses abstract properties (information, representation) to describe mental events without collapsing normativity into description.
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    • 1.Abstract logical laws (like non-contradiction) are normative standards independent of any particular mind's operations.
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    • 2.Describing mental events using logical properties risks treating what ought to be true as merely what happens to occur psychologically.
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    • 3.Frege's anti-psychologism correctly distinguished objective logical validity from subjective mental processes to protect mathematics' objectivity.
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