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    It is not the case that Quine's naturalized epistemology dissolves the analytic-synthetic distinction, eliminating the privileged category of necessary truths that non-empirical knowledge was meant to explain.

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    • 1.Mathematical and logical truths appear necessarily true in ways that differ fundamentally from empirical claims about the world.
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    • 2.Even Quine acknowledges some beliefs (like logic) are more resistant to revision than others, suggesting a distinction in kind exists.
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    • 3.Dissolving the analytic-synthetic distinction doesn't eliminate the problem of explaining why necessary truths seem knowable a priori.
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    • 1.All beliefs form an interconnected web where any belief can be revised if empirical evidence demands it, including logical truths.
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    • 2.The analytic-synthetic distinction assumes a false boundary; no statement is immune from empirical recalibration in light of experience.
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    • 3.Naturalized epistemology avoids mysterious non-empirical faculties by explaining all knowledge through ordinary empirical science.
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