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    Challenges→What can be consistently postulated need not thereby be said to 'must exist' in any robust sense.

    The claim itself privileges a distinction between 'consistency' and 'robust existence' without justifying why consistency should be epistemically accessible if existence is wholly separate.

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    Key Terms

    Epistemically accessible(describing what we can actually know)
    Able to be known or understood by the human mind; within reach of our ability to learn about it.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Privileges(as used to describe treating one thing as more important than another)
    Gives special favor or priority to something over something else.
    Robust existence(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that really exists in a strong, independent way—not just as an idea in someone's head, but as something genuinely real and substantial.
    consistency(Syntactic concept in many-sorted logic)

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    The syntactic counterpart of satisfiability; corresponds to satisfiability in the same sense as ⊢ corresponds to ⊨
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs

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