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    A legitimate epistemic ground must select among competing... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Information about the past can serve as a legitimate ground for believing something will happen in the future

    A legitimate epistemic ground must select among competing hypotheses, not merely be consistent with all of them simultaneously.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires distinguishing truth from falsehood; grounds that permit all hypotheses equally fail this fundamental epistemic function.
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    • 2.Science advances through falsifiability: evidence gains explanatory power by ruling out alternatives, not merely coexisting with them.
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    • 3.Rational belief requires comparative justification; showing a ground supports hypothesis A over B is stronger than showing it supports both.
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    • 1.Underdetermination is genuine: many observational grounds logically permit multiple incompatible theories, yet some ground genuine knowledge.
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    • 2.Consistency with all competing hypotheses can still provide positive support if it makes evidence more probable than alternative background states.
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    • 3.Requiring grounds to discriminate assumes we can exhaustively enumerate competing hypotheses; in reality, unknown alternatives always exist.
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