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Platonists and rationalists have not genuinely verified their theories by observation; they have made an induction from rational introspection.

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1.Kant demonstrated that pure reason's self-examination generates antinomies, showing rational introspection is not a reliable verification procedure.
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2.If rational introspection were genuine observation, disagreeing rationalists could resolve disputes by re-examining the same rational faculty, but persistent disagreement persists.
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1.Quine argued in 'Epistemology Naturalized' that any verification divorced from causal contact with the world collapses into circular self-justification.
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2.Platonists posit abstract objects causally inert to the mind, so introspective 'access' cannot constitute observation in any epistemically robust sense recognized by causal theories of knowledge.
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1.Platonists and rationalists claim verification because they have observed what reason reveals to them.
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2.Such 'observation' is actually rational introspection, not sensible observation.
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Wright did not elaborate upon the difference between direct and indirect verification in actual practice. He had much more to say about differences in method between science and philosophy. He believed that all branches of knowledge had to follow the method of verification belonging to science. The “philosophy of method” is incomplete, however, in that it cannot say what constitutes verification in all the departments of knowledge. Because there is no “complete inventory of our primary sources o

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