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    If strict universality is revisable under extreme empiric... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Strict universality indicates a special source of cognition — a faculty of a priori cognition — distinct from empirical sources.

    If strict universality is revisable under extreme empirical pressure, as scientific history shows with Newtonian mechanics, it does not indicate a categorically distinct cognitive source.

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    Categorically distinct(The statement claims semantic mechanisms of different paradoxes are categorically distinct)
    Fundamentally different in type or category, not just different in degree.
    Newtonian mechanics(the main subject of the statement)
    The system of physics developed by Isaac Newton that explains how objects move and interact through forces, using math to predict motion. It's the 'classic' physics we learn in high school before relativity.
    Revisable(as used in logical analysis)
    Capable of being changed, overturned, or reconsidered based on new evidence or under different conditions.
    cognitive source(as used in epistemology)
    The origin or foundation of how we know something—whether it comes from experience, reason, intuition, or some other way our minds work.

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    empirical pressure(as the force that might change arithmetic truths)
    New observations or experiments from the real world that force us to reconsider what we thought was true.
    strict universality(Required for a genuine objective law; cannot be derived from purely inductive inference)
    Universality that admits no exceptions and is grounded in necessity, not induction.

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