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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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