If both faith-claims and scientific conditionals are held as unconditionally valid within their respective frameworks, the epistemic asymmetry Boethius posits collapses into a symmetry of framework-relative certainty.
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The idea that something is absolutely certain only when judged by the rules of its own system—true within that framework, but not necessarily true in other frameworks.
Scientific conditionals(contrasted with faith-claims in the passage)
Statements that describe how the natural world works, usually in the form of 'if X happens, then Y will follow,' based on observation and testing.
Unconditionally valid(describing how both faith and scientific claims are held)
Accepted as true without any exceptions, doubts, or conditions attached—treated as absolutely certain.
epistemic asymmetry(Applied to pain and perceptual experience to distinguish first-person from third-person access.)
The condition in which two subjects have structurally different forms of access to the same experiential state, such that the subject whose state it is has a mode of access unavailable to any other subject.
framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.