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    If the community of inquiry has no principled terminus, p... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The limits of human cognition to phenomenal knowledge are not contingent on the current state of scientific knowledge.

    If the community of inquiry has no principled terminus, positing permanent cognitive limits presupposes an unverifiable metaphysical claim.

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    • 1.Any claim about permanent cognitive limits requires knowledge of inquiry's ultimate boundaries, which inquiry itself cannot conclusively establish.
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    • 2.If inquiry can always generate new questions about proposed limits, those limits lack the finality needed to ground metaphysical necessity claims.
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    • 3.Positing fixed cognitive constraints commits one to truths beyond experiential verification, which mirrors the unfalsifiability problem it identifies.
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    • 1.Biological and physical constraints on cognition (brain capacity, lifespan) are observable facts, not unverifiable metaphysical claims.
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    • 2.Distinguishing between 'limitless inquiry' and 'limitless human cognition' undermines the argument: communities may endure while individuals cannot.
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    • 3.The claim itself presupposes cognitive limits (e.g., inability to verify all metaphysical claims), so rejecting permanent limits proves self-defeating.
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