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reasons-subcase-of-legitimacy

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Statement

Understanding legitimacy includes, as a subcase, understanding reasons.

Source

Stated from its content. Evidence rows: wiki/Legitimacy.md, section "Legitimacy has two halves"; projects/deference/rounds/2026-09-07-reason-mediated-authorship/README.md.

Notes

A crux filed under this programme. The first row is conditioned on the public theory's definition of internal legitimacy. It decides whether the Brandom and Habermas material is a child of the legitimacy programme or a free-standing line.

Author and human events

Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size M.

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Children

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