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    Wilfrid Sellars showed that the 'space of reasons' govern... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Using language at all commits the speaker only to conventional presuppositions, not to metaphysical realities.

    Wilfrid Sellars showed that the 'space of reasons' governing assertion has normative structure that cannot be fully deflated into social convention without vicious regress.

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    • 1.Social conventions alone cannot justify why one assertion counts as correct without appealing to standards external to the convention itself.
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    • 2.If all normativity reduced to convention, justifying the convention itself would require citing that same convention—a circle.
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    • 3.The space of reasons exhibits rational standards (consistency, evidence-responsiveness) that transcend particular cultural or linguistic communities.
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    • 1.Sellars never clearly demonstrated that some normative residue must remain after social explanation; he diagnosed a problem without proof of his solution.
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    • 2.Sophisticated conventionalism can explain normativity via recursive self-endorsement within a practice—no external standard required to avoid regress.
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    • 3.Calling something 'normative structure' may simply redescribe social facts rather than prove normativity transcends social constitution.
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