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    Challenges→An object of cognition must exhibit the conceptual characteristics of universality and singularity in order to be an epistemic object.

    Quine's naturalized epistemology demonstrates that knowledge can be grounded in causal-physical relations without requiring conceptual universality imposed by subjects.

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    • 1.Empirical science successfully grounds knowledge in causal-physical relations without requiring a priori conceptual schemes.
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    • 2.Subjects inevitably impose different conceptual frameworks, yet achieve convergent knowledge through physical causation.
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    • 3.Traditional epistemology's demand for universal concepts creates unsolvable regress problems that naturalism avoids.
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    • 1.Causal-physical relations are themselves conceptually interpreted; raw causation cannot ground knowledge without conceptual mediation.
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    • 2.Quine's account presupposes logic and set theory—concepts that cannot be grounded in mere physical causation without circularity.
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    • 3.The claim requires explaining how purely physical processes generate the normative force that distinguishes knowledge from mere belief.
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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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