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    Challenges→For Hegel, logic has an ontological dimension and is not merely a science of the form of thought

    Without a Kantian-style deduction showing why thought-structures must mirror being, the inference from logic to ontology is unwarranted.

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    • 1.Logic's validity seems to depend on structural facts about reality, not merely human cognition.
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    • 2.Without principled justification for why logic applies to being, we risk ungrounded metaphysical leaps.
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    • 3.Kant showed that transcendental arguments can establish necessary connections between mind and world.
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    • 1.Logic's usefulness in prediction and control doesn't require proving it mirrors being itself.
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    • 2.A Kantian deduction just relocates the problem: why must transcendental conditions match ontology?
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    • 3.Many successful inferences from logic to ontology predate Kant; the requirement seems historically imposed.
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