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    Supports→Kantian critical rationalism correctly establishes the connection between ideas and objective reality and preserves the possibility of error.

    One may form an idea of a definite possible experience (e.g., that one's keys are on the table) and then discover that reality does not validate that idea, demonstrating that error is possible.

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    Possible experience(describing the boundary of what we can know)
    In Kant's philosophy, anything that could potentially be observed or experienced by a human being within the limits of how human minds work.
    error(Pascal's Wager)
    A belief or choice contrary to the true; something Pascal treats as worth shunning.
    idea (in philosophical sense)(epistemology (the study of knowledge))

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    A thought, mental image, or concept that exists in your mind—like when you picture where you think your keys are.
    validate(what conventionalism would be forced to do)
    To officially accept or confirm something as correct, legitimate, or true.

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    One objection to the argument from error is that another type of objective reality, some other sort of being external to one’s finite mind, might explain the possibility of error just as well. Royce took up this objection in the first volume of The World and the Individual, which was subtitled “The Four Historical Conceptions of Being.” In this extended argument Royce critiqued what he regarded as the main competing conceptions of objective reality so as to strengthen his case for idealism. The

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