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    Supports→Epistemic relativism cannot be coherently formulated.

    Any coherent relativist framework must identify a meta-standard by which competing epistemic systems are recognized as genuinely distinct, yet no such standard can itself be system-relative without vicious regress.

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    Epistemic systems(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    Different frameworks or methods for figuring out what counts as knowledge and how we know things are true.
    Meta-standard(as the standard needed to judge different knowledge systems)
    A higher-level rule or measure that you use to evaluate and compare other rules or systems.
    System-relative(as opposed to universal truth)
    Something that depends on the specific set of rules you're using—true in one system but not necessarily true in another.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    relativism

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    (Associated with Protagoras's position)
    The doctrine that truth is relative to the individual, culture, or historical context, such that a proposition can be true for one person or framework and false for another
    vicious regress(Used by Ryle as a reductio against intellectualist accounts of intelligence)
    An explanatory regress in which each explanatory step requires a further step of the same kind, preventing the explanation from ever being completed.

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