But there is no principled reason to exclude reflection as a source of information about the natural world. Reflective subjects are, after all, parts of the natural world, and in the end, an ontology of the natural world will have to explain what is known about the world through reflection as well as what is known through perception. What is still excluded from ontological philosophy, however, is the use of reflection as a foundation for proving necessary truths. The foundation of necessary truths in ontological philosophy is the ontological explanation that best explains what is perceived. Only ontologically necessary truths are justified from its ontological foundation. As it turns out, however, spatiomaterialism puts ontological philosophy in a position to explain why it has seemed that some propositions can be known with certainty.
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