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All three of the basic scientific methods and modes of argumentation stand for something very simple and easy to understand.

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Similarly, the simple idea behind philosophical argumentation is that any statement made in the context of some form of experience has and implies certain necessary and fundamental presuppositions, but for which it could not be meaningful or even possibly true. By beginning with the statement, then, philosophical analysis explicates the most basic presuppositions that it implies. Thus, whether or not a philosophical statement about basic presuppositions is validated (i.e., philosophically legitimated) depends on its explicating a presupposition shown to be necessarily implied by philosophical analysis.

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