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    Supports→Rhetoric being the mode of knowledge most apt to moral sciences does not imply that rhetoric contributes to moral or political knowledge

    A discipline's instrumental aptness for communicating or examining a domain's conclusions leaves its epistemic foundations untouched and independently grounded.

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    • 1.Mathematics successfully communicates physics conclusions without physics grounding mathematics' axioms or logical structure.
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    • 2.A tool's effectiveness at expressing ideas doesn't entail the tool's own justification depends on those ideas' truth.
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    • 3.Epistemically independent foundations can be instrumentally useful; independence and utility aren't contradictory properties.
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    • 1.Examining a domain's conclusions through a discipline shapes what counts as valid evidence, altering foundational epistemic standards.
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    • 2.Instrumental success (communication/examination) typically indicates the tool's framework actually aligns with domain reality, not independence.
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    • 3.No discipline develops foundations in genuine isolation; grounding emerges through sustained engagement with domains it later examines.
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