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    Challenges→A principle of demonstration must be necessary, not merely true.

    If scientific demonstration can accommodate 'for the most part' truths about natural regularities, necessity is too strong a requirement for all demonstrative premises.

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    • 1.Natural science achieves predictive success explaining regularities that hold 'for the most part' without exception.
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    • 2.Requiring absolute necessity for all premises would exclude virtually all empirical sciences from being demonstrative.
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    • 3.Aristotle himself acknowledged that demonstrations in natural philosophy need not match mathematics' certainty standards.
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    • 1.Demonstration requires premises that cannot be false; 'for the most part' truths are inherently fallible and defeasible.
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    • 2.Conflating successful prediction with necessary demonstration confuses practical utility with logical rigor and validity.
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    • 3.If premises can accommodate exceptions, the conclusion remains uncertain, defeating demonstration's core purpose of certainty.
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