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There's still more than one kind of epistemology that's compatible with this. You haven't answered questions about whether you can know things by just reasoning without any empirical input, or can know things about concepts unrelated to the physical world.
You've pinned down that a "perfect rational agent" is relevant in your system, and that the laws of science are real, meaningful, knowable and not infinite. That's it.
I do not fully grasp this context or dimensionality of scope. I am not implying any form of mentalism, but I doubt that was the intended meaning here.
You've helped me see more clearly though. I'm postulating that it is possible to statistically ground inference against infinite probability once enough background information is established and unknown scopes constrained. The data collection in-situ grounds the interlocutor against the background. Truth is known when the matter in question has a sufficient statistical constraint against this background.
I guess I'm saying intuitive reasoning has a grounding scope flaw in the present, but this flaw is solvable because the observable universe is finite and a statistical measure against it is a valid truth and condition for conscious existence within once sufficient information is known and encompassed with understanding. Does this perspective have a name?
Most of the examples I'm thinking of are math things. A really basic example might be an infinite collection of objects, if the universe is finite. You can talk about it, and even prove things about it mathematically, but it has no physical equivalent. If I can prove that one infinity is bigger than another (which has been done) in a finite universe, is that then a form of knowledge? Some schools, like pragmatism, would actually say no.
You lost me a bit, but is this anything like Solomonoff induction?
Empiricism, plus the belief that the observable universe is tractable (which is a thing most scientists believe but nobody has proven). At least, believing you can't do intuitive reasoning without knowing the universe is textbook empiricism.