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    The justification for employing philosophical concepts ca... — Carmelics
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    The justification for employing philosophical concepts cannot be based on empirical observation.

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    • 1.Philosophical distinctions (such as those between the expedient and the right, mind and body) cannot be empirically verified.
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    • 2.A justification based on empirical observation requires that the distinctions in question be empirically verifiable.
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    • 3.Philosophical distinctions involve differences in concepts without corresponding differentiation in observable instances.
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    • 1.Quine's naturalized epistemology demonstrates that philosophical concepts like 'belief' and 'reference' are continuous with empirical science.
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    • 2.If philosophical concepts are continuous with scientific ones, their justification inherits the empirical warrant of successful scientific practice.
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    • 3.The analytic/synthetic distinction that would wall off philosophy from empirical revision has itself been undermined by empirical considerations about language use.
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    • 1.Aristotle grounded philosophical categories like substance, causation, and form in systematic observation of natural kinds and biological specimens.
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    • 2.If a foundational philosophical tradition derives conceptual distinctions from empirical investigation, then empirical observation can serve as genuine justification for philosophical concepts.
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    An implication of the ubiquitous nature of the overlap of classes is that the justification for the employment of philosophical concepts cannot be based on empirical observation because philosophical distinctions cannot be empirically verified. A geologist’s classification of rocks into sedimentary and crystalline, for example, is based on the observable features of the two types of rocks and is empirically verifiable; by contrast philosophical distinctions such as those between the expedient an
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