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    If direct acquaintance with a singular is possible, the s... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The human mind can only know the external world through species (mental representations) that resemble external things.

    If direct acquaintance with a singular is possible, the species is an unnecessary ontological posit violating parsimony.

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    • 1.Direct acquaintance provides complete epistemic access to particulars without requiring abstract intermediaries like species.
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    • 2.Parsimony favors ontologies with fewer kinds of entities; if particulars alone suffice, species become explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.Resemblance relations between singulars can ground classification without positing shared universal essences.
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    • 1.Direct acquaintance with particulars doesn't explain why multiple distinct things share properties; resemblance requires a basis.
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    • 2.Parsimony applies to explanatory posits, not ontological categories; species explain pattern-identity that particulars alone cannot.
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    • 3.The argument conflates epistemological access with ontological commitment; knowing singulars directly doesn't entail species don't exist.
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