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    The circular logic in Althusser's epistemological theory is acceptable

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    • 1.It is only the science of Historical Materialism that allows us to understand scientific practice in general
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    • 2.Historical Materialism itself functions like any other science, making the circularity structurally consistent rather than vicious
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    • 1.Epistemological self-validation without external verification fails the basic requirement that justification must be independent of the system being justified.
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    • 2.Althusser's framework cannot distinguish itself from ideology by its own criteria, since ideology too reproduces itself through internally consistent practices.
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    • 3.Popper's criterion of falsifiability establishes that a theory immunized against external critique by circular self-grounding is pseudoscientific, not scientific.
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    • 1.Neurath's coherentism, the most charitable framework for circular epistemic systems, still requires that individual components of the raft be revisable under empirical pressure.
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    • 2.Historical Materialism in Althusser's formulation treats its own foundational categories as unrevisable, violating even the minimal coherentist standard for acceptable circularity.
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    Althusser’s debt to the tradition of French historical epistemology in this account of knowledge production and philosophy of science should now be evident. However, this epistemology’s Marxian and Spinozistic elements may be less pronounced. The vocabulary adopted above to express this theory, however, gestures to both influences. For Althusser, Marx’s founding of the science of history is crucial not only to politics (as will be addressed below) but also to understanding all of human activity,
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