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    Tolerating perceptual error equally across both accounts ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Hume's regularity account is not undermined by the possibility of perceptual error any more than Ducasse's singular causation account is

    Tolerating perceptual error equally across both accounts obscures this asymmetry in revisability, rendering the parity claim logically superficial.

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    • 1.Perceptual errors in direct experience can be corrected through immediate re-examination, while theoretical errors require systemic conceptual revision.
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    • 2.Treating asymmetrical correction procedures as equivalent obscures meaningful epistemic differences between empirical and theoretical domains.
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    • 3.Parity arguments that ignore revisability structure mistake formal similarity for substantive equivalence.
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    • 1.Both perceptual and theoretical errors ultimately depend on background beliefs, making their revisability structures fundamentally parallel.
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    • 2.The claim conflates ease of revision with logical asymmetry; difficulty doesn't establish deeper epistemic inequality.
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    • 3.Parity claims need not deny different revision costs—they can acknowledge asymmetry while maintaining functional equivalence.
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