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    Challenges→Unshakable conviction in the face of serious, well-thought-out challenges is the criterion for truth

    If unshakeability derives from a proposition's role in constituting the very framework within which doubt operates, then the criterion conflates logical grammar with metaphysical correspondence.

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    Key Terms

    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Logical grammar(describing what is being conflated)
    The rules and structure of how concepts relate to each other in language and thought, rather than the rules of how sentences are written.
    Metaphysical correspondence(the other structural rule being conflated; about truth matching reality)
    The idea that our words or thoughts accurately match up with how things actually exist in reality.
    Unshakeability(describes how certain foundational ideas seem immune to skepticism)
    The quality of being impossible to doubt or overturn; a belief or statement so solid that no argument can undermine it.
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    (as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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