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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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