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    If there were always something prior, the source of scien... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Principles of demonstration must be first (primitive).

    If there were always something prior, the source of scientific knowledge would rest on an infinite series of demonstrations

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    A demonstration must have as starting-points appropriate principles (NLP I.19, 106–7): true, first, immediate, prior to, better known than, and causes of the conclusion (NLP I.6, 34; DOS 503; 558). Of these conditions, to be true, first (or primitive), and immediate are the central ones: first because there is nothing prior to it in its kind—otherwise the source of scientific knowledge rests on an infinite series of demonstrations (NLP I.8, 43; I.11, 53); immediate because there is no medium bet

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