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    It is not the case that The principles of scientific demonstration cannot themselves be reached by demonstration.

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    • 1.Coherentist epistemology (Neurath, BonJour) holds that beliefs are justified by mutual inferential support, not foundational axioms.
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    • 2.If scientific principles cohere with and partially justify each other, their epistemic status emerges from a web of demonstrations, not brute intuition.
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    • 3.Aristotle's regress argument assumes a linear justificatory structure that coherentism structurally undermines.
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    • 1.Peirce's fallibilism holds that even first principles are revisable hypotheses subject to abductive inference and empirical correction.
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    • 2.If scientific history shows foundational principles (e.g., Euclidean geometry, absolute simultaneity) being overturned through reasoning, they were never truly non-demonstrative bedrock.
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    • 1.A demonstration (sullogismos) is a strong form of argument in which conclusions follow necessarily from premises.
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    • 2.Aristotle explicitly denies that the principles of scientific demonstration are reached by demonstration (APo. 72b19–20; 93b16–18).
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