Non-fundamental systems may succeed locally but fail at boundaries where hidden assumptions break down; reliability without fundamentality creates illusion of understanding without actual knowledge.
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Lower-dimensional entities such as points, lines, and surfaces
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
fundamental(as used in metaphysics)
Basic, primary, or most essential—the deepest level of something, not derived from anything else.
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.
reliability(what induction is trying to prove about itself)
The quality of consistently producing correct or trustworthy results; something you can depend on to work.