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    It is not the case that Peirce's fallibilism establishes that even logically valid inferences from our most confident premises remain revisable under future inquiry.

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    • 1.Logical validity within a consistent system is necessarily non-revisable—denying it collapses the concept of validity itself.
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    • 2.Revising conclusions from valid inferences means rejecting premises, not the inference; conflating these undermines Peirce's distinction.
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    • 3.If even logical conclusions are revisable, the claim itself becomes unfalsifiable and thus empirically vacuous by Peirce's own pragmatism.
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    • 1.History shows even mathematically sound theories (Euclidean geometry, Newtonian mechanics) were superseded by better frameworks.
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    • 2.Logical validity only preserves truth given premises; it cannot guarantee premises themselves are true or complete.
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    • 3.Scientific progress requires openness to revising foundational assumptions, not treating any conclusion as permanently settled.
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