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    Challenges→Modest transcendental arguments can be useful against certain forms of skepticism, once we distinguish between kinds of skepticism and target the appropriate one.

    Quine's naturalized epistemology shows that skepticism amenable to fallibilist rebuttal is better addressed by empirical science than by transcendental reasoning.

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    • 1.Empirical science has successfully identified and corrected systematic errors in human cognition that transcendental reasoning alone could not detect.
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    • 2.Fallibilist skepticism assumes knowledge can be incremental and provisional, which aligns better with scientific methodology than with transcendental certainty-seeking.
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    • 3.Naturalized epistemology avoids circular justification by grounding knowledge claims in causal mechanisms empirically verifiable in the world.
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    • 1.Empirical science itself presupposes epistemic principles (uniformity of nature, induction's validity) that cannot be justified by empirical science without circularity.
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    • 2.Transcendental reasoning can establish necessary conditions for knowledge that no amount of empirical data can overturn or replace as foundational constraints.
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    • 3.Not all skeptical doubts are amenable to empirical rebuttal; some concern whether empirical evidence itself could systematically mislead us.
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