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    It is not the case that There must be an utterly unconditioned first principle to ground certain human knowledge and avoid an infinite regress of justification.

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    • 1.Coherentist justification (Neurath, Quine) shows beliefs can be mutually supporting without any single foundational anchor.
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    • 2.A web of interconnected beliefs can achieve epistemic stability without terminating in an unconditioned first principle.
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    • 3.The demand for a single terminus conflates logical structure with psychological certainty, committing a genetic fallacy.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' demonstrates that bedrock certainties function as practical hinges, not as derived or derivable axioms.
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    • 2.Hinge propositions gain their epistemic status from forms of life and practice, not from being unconditioned in any metaphysical sense.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.We can only properly be said to know assertions that exhibit the character of certainty.
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    • 2.Justification of certain assertions requires grounding in some prior principle.
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    • 3.An infinite regress in justification must be avoided.
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