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    It is not the case that Human knowledge cannot be derived solely from experience of contingent particulars.

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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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    • 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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