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    If truth were exhausted by present experiential evidence,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There is no absolute truth as postulated by either dogmatism or skepticism.

    If truth were exhausted by present experiential evidence, the very premises used to argue against absolute truth could not themselves be stably true.

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    • 1.Logical arguments require stable truths to work; if premises shift with experience, argumentation itself becomes impossible.
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    • 2.Self-refuting claims (like 'all truth is experiential') undermine their own status by failing their own proposed standard.
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    • 3.Mathematical and logical truths appear constant across different experiential contexts, suggesting trans-experiential validity.
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    • 1.Stability of logical form doesn't require metaphysical absoluteness; consistency rules can be experientially grounded conventions.
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    • 2.Self-reference paradoxes reflect language limitations, not proof that some truths transcend experience entirely.
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    • 3.Math's consistency across contexts shows human cognitive universals, not objective truths independent of all possible minds.
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