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    Challenges→Careful and thoughtful inquiry is necessary in addition to sensory evidence.

    If the very faculty of reason used in 'careful inquiry' is constitutively prone to misunderstanding the logos it seeks, adding more inquiry compounds rather than corrects the epistemic failure.

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    Faculty of reason(as used in determining whether someone can be held responsible for their actions)
    Your ability to think logically, understand consequences, and make decisions based on rational thought.
    compounds rather than corrects(doing more inquiry doesn't fix the underlying mistake)
    Makes the problem worse instead of better; adding more of the same thing just multiplies the error.
    constitutively prone to(describing how misunderstanding is wired into reason itself)
    Built-in to have a tendency toward something; it's part of the very nature of the thing itself, not an accident or added flaw.
    epistemic failure(describing a problem with what we know)
    A failure in knowledge or understanding—when we don't know something we should, or we believe something false.
    logos

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    The account or principle of the cosmos's self-regulation; the rational structure underlying the intelligent ordering of the universe

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