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    It is not the case that If non-epistemic distortions are reducible to communicative pathologies, they are still epistemic failures at the level of the institution, collapsing the claim's proposed distinction.

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    • 1.Communicative pathologies can exist without producing false beliefs; poor communication ≠ epistemic failure if truth-tracking remains intact.
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    • 2.Individual epistemic failures can be non-epistemic in nature while institutional outcomes remain epistemically sound through corrective mechanisms.
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    • 3.A distinction collapses only if the categories share identical necessary and sufficient conditions, not merely overlapping consequences.
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    • 1.Institutions are constituted by communicative practices; distortions in communication necessarily corrupt institutional knowledge-production.
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    • 2.If a problem undermines an institution's epistemic reliability, it is by definition an epistemic failure regardless of its causal origin.
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    • 3.The distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic failures becomes meaningless if both produce identical institutional epistemic consequences.
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