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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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