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    It is not the case that Judging a tradition's adequacy by criteria external to its own problematics conflates disciplinary difference with intellectual failure.

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    • 1.Some traditions produce internally consistent but false claims; internal coherence alone cannot guarantee adequacy about reality.
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    • 2.External criteria (empirical evidence, logical validity, explanatory power) reveal when traditions fail their own stated aims.
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    • 3.Isolating traditions prevents identifying shared problems; cross-traditional dialogue exposes hidden assumptions and limitations.
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    • 1.Traditions develop internal standards of rigor suited to their unique questions; external criteria may simply be category mistakes.
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    • 2.Imposing external criteria privileges one tradition's problematics as universal, masking a particular as general.
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    • 3.Understanding requires inhabiting a tradition's logic first; premature external judgment prevents genuine comprehension.
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