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    If systematic inquiry reliably produces equipollent contr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Careful and thoughtful inquiry is necessary in addition to sensory evidence.

    If systematic inquiry reliably produces equipollent contradictions, the prescription to inquire more carefully offers no epistemic advantage over sensory evidence alone.

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    • 1.If inquiry consistently produces contradictions that have equal logical warrant, both cannot be true, making further inquiry methodologically futile.
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    • 2.Sensory evidence provides direct, immediate access to phenomena, while contradictory inquiry results offer no clear path to deciding between them.
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    • 3.An epistemic method that cannot resolve its own internal conflicts has no advantage over methods that make no such contradictory claims.
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    • 1.Equipollent contradictions may indicate the framework is flawed, not that inquiry itself fails—careful inquiry can expose and revise problematic assumptions.
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    • 2.Sensory evidence alone cannot arbitrate between contradictions it cannot even detect or articulate; systematic inquiry reveals problems sensory access obscures.
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    • 3.The inability to resolve contradictions now does not entail permanent futility; deeper inquiry may dissolve apparent equipollence by uncovering missing distinctions.
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