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    It is not the case that Epochê itself constitutes a judgment about the epistemic status of appearances, making universal suspension self-undermining.

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    • 1.Epochê need not judge appearances 'untrustworthy'—it merely suspends assent without evaluating their epistemic status at all.
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    • 2.Distinguishing between judging appearances and judging the *act of judging itself* allows suspension without self-reference collapse.
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    • 3.Pyrrhonian epochê avoids claiming appearances are unreliable; it simply doesn't commit to their reliability or unreliability.
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    • 1.Epochê requires judging that appearances lack sufficient justification, which itself presupposes epistemic criteria—a performative contradiction.
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    • 2.Universal suspension claims appearances *are* epistemically untrustworthy, asserting a substantive claim about reality while denying all such claims.
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    • 3.The act of bracketing depends on recognizing what needs bracketing, requiring prior non-suspended judgment about epistemic status.
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