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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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