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    This directly undermines P2 by showing knowability does n... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An object of cognition must exhibit the conceptual characteristics of universality and singularity in order to be an epistemic object.

    This directly undermines P2 by showing knowability does not require that objects already conform to the subject's conceptual equipment.

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    • 1.Subjects successfully acquire knowledge of radically novel phenomena (quantum mechanics, new species) despite lacking prior conceptual frameworks for them.
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    • 2.Conceptual frameworks evolve through engagement with objects that resist existing categories, suggesting knowability precedes conceptual conformity.
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    • 3.If knowability required prior conceptual fit, we could never explain how revolutionary scientific discoveries expand human understanding fundamentally.
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    • 1.Even novel knowledge requires some existing conceptual apparatus (language, logic, categories of 'thing' or 'property') as a baseline framework.
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    • 2.The claim conflates 'objects conforming to all concepts' with 'objects conforming to some minimal conceptual structure,' making the counter-argument equivocal.
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    • 3.Without pre-existing concepts, subjects cannot even identify what an object is or recognize it as knowable rather than mere undifferentiated sensation.
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