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    Human knowledge cannot be derived solely from experience ... — Carmelics
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    Human knowledge cannot be derived solely from experience of contingent particulars.

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    • 1.Our experience of the world is always of contingent particulars.
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    • 2.Human knowledge can be general and sometimes necessary — holding across all possible worlds, not just actual cases.
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    • 1.Repeated exposure to contingent particulars can produce abstract generalizations through inductive inference, as Hume's associationist psychology demonstrates.
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    • 2.Necessary-seeming truths like mathematical axioms may reflect deeply entrenched empirical regularities rather than mind-independent necessities, per Mill's System of Logic.
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    • 3.The appearance of necessity in knowledge claims may be a psychological compulsion to believe, not evidence that the knowledge transcends experiential origin.
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    • 1.Quine's naturalized epistemology dissolves the analytic-synthetic distinction, eliminating the privileged category of necessary truths that non-empirical knowledge was meant to explain.
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    • 2.If no statement is immune from revision in light of experience, then the general and necessary character of knowledge does not require a non-experiential source.
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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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    Human knowledge can be general and sometimes necessary — holding across all poss...If no statement is immune from revision in light of experience, then the general...Necessary-seeming truths like mathematical axioms may reflect deeply entrenched ...Our experience of the world is always of contingent particulars.
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    Leibniz, the other important Rationalist defender of innateness, elaborates the theory in a number of important ways in his New Essays on Human Understanding. He famously challenges Locke’s analogy of the mind as blank slate with a competing image of the mind as a block of marble whose veins already mark out the shape of Hercules (52). A more significant point is his sharpening of the poverty of the stimulus claim. He argues that our experience of the world is always of contingent particulars, b
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    The appearance of necessity in knowledge claims may be a psychological compulsio...
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