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    It is not the case that Tolerating perceptual error equally across both accounts obscures this asymmetry in revisability, rendering the parity claim logically superficial.

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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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    • 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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