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    Challenges→Modest transcendental arguments can be useful against certain forms of skepticism, once we distinguish between kinds of skepticism and target the appropriate one.

    Distinguishing skeptical targets without verificationist bridge principles merely relocates, rather than defeats, the original epistemic problem.

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    • 1.Skeptical problems arise from infinite regress in justification; distinguishing targets without verification criteria merely creates new regress levels.
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    • 2.Verificationist bridge principles provide constraints that break regress; without them, any target distinction remains epistemically groundless.
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    • 3.Moving skeptical problems between domains (e.g., from perception to memory) preserves the underlying justificatory gap rather than closing it.
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    • 1.Distinguishing skeptical targets enables domain-specific responses that needn't use verification; coherentism works differently than foundationalism.
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    • 2.Verificationism itself faces severe objections; relying on it merely exchanges one unsolved problem for another without progress.
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    • 3.Relocating problems can constitute genuine progress if new locations admit of solution via different epistemic resources or semantic clarification.
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