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    It is not the case that Distinguishing skeptical targets without verificationist bridge principles merely relocates, rather than defeats, the original epistemic problem.

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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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    • 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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