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    Supports→Scientific axioms may be imperfect approximations to reality

    Only knowledge derived from a total understanding of the First Cause would guarantee perfect correspondence to reality

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    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.

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    Sciences must be built the Aristotelian way, and their theorems must be accepted as true. We have no alternative. But they are only as true as their axioms, which may be imperfect approximations to reality as they are not derived from a total understanding of the First Cause, and have a built-in presupposition that the sort of things they mention are instantiated in reality (see §3.3.3, below).

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