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    Frege's foundational critique of psychologism establishes... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The fact that a competent evaluator finds first-order evidence to support God's existence is itself evidence that God exists.

    Frege's foundational critique of psychologism establishes that the normative validity of an inferential relation is independent of whether any cognitive agent successfully tracks it.

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    Foundational critique(as used in philosophy and logic)
    A serious objection or argument that challenges the basic assumptions or principles of something, rather than just criticizing minor details.
    Frege(as a major historical figure in philosophy)
    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German logician and philosopher who founded modern logic and did groundbreaking work on how language relates to meaning and existence.
    Normative validity(as used in ethics and philosophy of law)
    The quality that makes a rule or principle binding or genuinely authoritative—why we should actually follow it.
    cognitive agent(the subject being described in the statement)
    A being that can think, learn, and process information—like a person, an animal, or potentially a computer.
    inferential relation

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    (epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A logical connection between two ideas where one idea supports or leads to another—like how 'it's raining' supports the idea that 'the ground is wet.'
    psychologism(Philosophy of social science)
    The view that the social sciences are sciences of the mind or psyche of society, treating mental states as the building blocks of the social

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