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We can distinguish between question-begging circularity a... — Carmelics

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Challenges→Any attempt to verify uniformity of nature would circularly employ the very regularities whose universality is in question, rendering the demand self-undermining.

We can distinguish between question-begging circularity and necessary presuppositions underlying all knowledge.

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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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