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    Finite minds can grasp infinite substance through reason ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→His own epistemology concedes that imagination—our primary mode of perceiving external things—yields only confused, inadequate ideas, meaning the gap between mind and world persists at the level of finite cognition.

    Finite minds can grasp infinite substance through reason (second kind of knowledge), undermining the claim that finite cognition cannot bridge the gap.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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