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    If signs permit contrary reasonable judgments, the episte... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Humans cannot attain clear knowledge of imperceptible things, but can make reasonable judgments about them from perceptual signs.

    If signs permit contrary reasonable judgments, the epistemic category 'reasonable judgment' collapses into mere conjecture.

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    • 1.Reasonable judgment requires stable standards of evidence interpretation; contrary judgments from identical signs indicate absent or variable standards.
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    • 2.If two equally competent interpreters reach opposite conclusions from the same evidence, at least one lacks genuine epistemic warrant, not mere disagreement.
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    • 3.Conjecture is precisely judgment without sufficient rational constraint; unlimited contrary interpretations show signs impose no rational constraint.
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    • 1.Reasonable disagreement exists across domains (history, ethics, physics); contrary judgments don't collapse standards but reflect genuine interpretive pluralism.
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    • 2.Signs can be genuinely ambiguous yet reasonable: multiple interpretations can each satisfy evidential standards without collapsing into equal conjecture.
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    • 3.Distinguishing reasoned disagreement from mere conjecture requires evaluating argument quality, not sign-interpretation uniqueness. Collapse claim conflates these.
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