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    Aristotle demonstrated that substantial knowledge of universal forms is achievable through systematic abstraction from sensory experience itself.

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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism unifies particulars and universals: individual substances instantiate forms, making abstraction from experience epistemically justified.
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    • 2.Nous (intellect) can extract essential properties common to multiple sensory instances, demonstrating that universal knowledge emerges systematically from experience.
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    • 3.Aristotle's biological taxonomy successfully identified genuine categories across species, proving systematic abstraction yields real metaphysical knowledge.
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    • 1.Abstraction cannot bridge the epistemic gap between particular sensations and universal necessity—sensory data alone underdetermines which features are essential.
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    • 2.Aristotle's account of nous remains metaphysically obscure; positing intellectual intuition as a special faculty merely relocates rather than solves the problem.
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    • 3.Modern empiricism and psychology show perception is theory-laden and culturally shaped, undermining the claim that 'bare' abstraction from experience yields objective universals.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
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