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    If no statement is immune from revision in light of exper... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human knowledge cannot be derived solely from experience of contingent particulars.

    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.Experience has repeatedly revised claims we thought necessary (Euclidean geometry, simultaneity). This shows necessity isn't fixed a priori.
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    • 2.If knowledge derives from non-experiential sources, those sources would need justification independent of experience—but we can't access them.
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    • 3.General patterns emerge from experience through abstraction and induction. No separate rational faculty is required to explain generality.
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    • 1.Revisability doesn't prove empirical origin. Logical truths are revisable in practice but not because experience grounds them.
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    • 2.Experience itself requires conceptual frameworks (space, time, causality) to be intelligible. These frameworks may precede empirical content.
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    • 3.Mathematical necessity and universality hold across all possible experiences. This suggests a non-experiential, a priori component to knowledge.
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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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