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If empirical causal laws are genuinely empirical, they inherit the revisability and fallibility that defines empirical knowledge, precluding strict necessity.

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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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