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    Supports→The dogmatism of traditional philosophical ethics is folly because it hobbles moral progress.

    A framework that generates hypotheses, tests them against lived experience, and revises them accordingly possesses greater adaptive capacity than one anchored to fixed categorical imperatives.

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    Key Terms

    Adaptive capacity(as used in philosophy of science and pragmatism)
    The ability to change and adjust yourself based on new information or changing circumstances.
    categorical imperatives(Presented as what must supplement hypothetical imperatives for the present-future self relation to be appropriately binding)
    Imperatives that bind a future self to a project in light of the same rationally endorsable principles that originated the project
    empiricism(Used in discussing what cannot explain false belief in Theaetetus 187–201)
    Either a developed philosophical theory or the instinctive empiricism of some people's common sense
    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.

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    hypothesis(Phase three of Dewey's pattern of inquiry)
    A construction that imaginatively utilizes both theoretical ideas and perceptual facts to forecast the possible consequences of various operations
    lived experience(as used in phenomenology and philosophy of human nature)
    What we actually feel and go through in real life, based on our own direct encounters rather than abstract theory.

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