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    It is not the case that The circular logic in Althusser's epistemological theory is acceptable

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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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    • 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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