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concept: suspension

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Definition

A **multi-constraint, domain-sensitive, pragmatically navigated epistemology** where beliefs are not grounded but _suspended_ in a structured field of embodied (foundational), referential (correspondent), and inferential (coherent) forces.

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So there is no final system, no escape from MDNMIW

Philosophy is not the discovery of an absolute justification, but the cultivation of better suspensions.

!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^967ec2

Suspension is the escape from the labyrinth of reasons. Philosophy will founder on circularity, proliferation, disputation, prejudice, ambiguity, subterfuge, and oubliation. Suspension will aid us in anchoring the web of belief to the structure of the labyrinth. This is the holism, the network. The Spinoza quote.

Spinoza in Ethics, Part I, Proposition 7, Scholium (E2p7): "The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”

Suspension is the establishment of an analytic base. This is the response to Quines "Two Dogmas". Analytic suspends the circularity and proliferation of the Labyrinth by establishing a foundation.

Suspension is a brake on infinite semiosis. Infinite semiosis is precisely what people don't like about philosophy.

!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^16443b

The early modern suspension involves using Hume's fork to eat the soup of reality.

!Cognitive science, an exposition#^1f70cf

We reject the Myth of the Proven —the demand for an absolute, self-grounding system—we must instead inhabit the constitutive tension between mind and world, expressed in the notion of a “mind-dependent notion of a mind-independent world” MDNMIW. Within this tension, belief is neither certain nor arbitrary, but pragmatically stabilized as a provisional suspension.

Compare to "theory". !Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^22a175

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