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    It is not the case that The justification for employing philosophical concepts cannot be based on empirical observation.

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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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    • 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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