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    Therefore, 'transcending' the sensible world would produc... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Perfect knowledge requires transcending the sensible world and accessing the intelligible world

    Therefore, 'transcending' the sensible world would produce empty abstractions, not perfect knowledge.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires grounding in observable phenomena; claims divorced from sensory data lack empirical verification or falsifiability.
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    • 2.Abstract concepts like 'pure being' or 'the Good itself' lack determinate content without sensible examples to anchor their meaning.
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    • 3.Historical metaphysical systems transcending the sensible world (Platonic forms, Kantian noumena) generate irresolvable disputes, suggesting emptiness.
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    • 1.Mathematical and logical truths are abstract yet substantive; they transcend sensory experience without becoming empty or meaningless.
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    • 2.Sensory experience itself presupposes non-sensible frameworks (space, time, causality); transcending sensibles may yield knowledge of these conditions.
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    • 3.The claim assumes 'perfect knowledge' must resemble empirical knowledge; but different domains may require different epistemic standards.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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