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    Challenges→The laws of nature and the principles of logic are irreducible to the process of empirical generalization

    If logical laws are in principle revisable under empirical pressure, as paraconsistent logics applied to quantum phenomena suggest, they cannot be categorically distinct from empirical generalizations.

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    Categorically distinct(The statement claims semantic mechanisms of different paradoxes are categorically distinct)
    Fundamentally different in type or category, not just different in degree.
    Logical laws(the subject of the statement)
    Basic rules that govern how reasoning works, like the law of non-contradiction (something can't be both true and false at the same time). These are usually thought of as absolute and unchangeable.
    Quantum phenomena(where paraconsistent logics are applied)
    Events and behaviors at the subatomic level (atoms, electrons, photons) that follow strange rules very different from everyday physics.
    Revisable(as used in logical analysis)
    Capable of being changed, overturned, or reconsidered based on new evidence or under different conditions.
    empirical generalizations

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    (first of two recognized kinds of generalization)
    Generalizations formulated in the observation language and justified by straightforward inductive methods
    empirical pressure(as the force that might change arithmetic truths)
    New observations or experiments from the real world that force us to reconsider what we thought was true.
    paraconsistent logics(in formal logic)
    A system of reasoning that allows contradictions (statements that seem to oppose each other) to exist without breaking down completely, unlike traditional logic.

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