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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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