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    It is not the case that Goodman's own 'grue' paradox demonstrates that indefinitely many incompatible rules achieve equilibrium with our considered judgments, leaving the method unable to adjudicate between them.

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    • 1.Reflective equilibrium is not meant to provide a deductive proof but rather the best explanation of our judgment practices—grue fails this test.
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    • 2.Simplicity, projectibility, and entrenchment are independent epistemic virtues that legitimately break ties without requiring additional adjudication.
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    • 3.The existence of multiple equilibria at higher levels of abstraction does not undermine equilibrium's utility in selecting rules that cohere with our core judgments.
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    • 1.Grue and competing predicates satisfy empirical data equally well up to any finite observation point, making them genuinely empirically equivalent.
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    • 2.Reflective equilibrium offers no principled criterion beyond intuition to prefer 'green' over 'grue', leaving the method epistemically circular.
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    • 3.If indefinitely many incompatible rules achieve equilibrium, the method cannot uniquely determine correct inductive principles or moral rules.
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