Earman and Norton's hole argument literature shows that structural facts about frame-equivalence classes can be intrinsic to manifold structure without requiring additional geometric objects.
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Structural facts(as a type of fact about spacetime)
Information about how things relate to and connect with each other, rather than facts about individual things themselves.
hole argument(Later recognized by Einstein himself in 1915 to be based on a false premise)
Einstein's 1913 argument that generally covariant field equations permit two different solutions in a matter-free and energy-free region of spacetime (a 'hole'), where the two solutions assign different values of the metric tensor to the same spacetime point, allegedly violating univocalness
manifold(Kant's account of cognition in the Critique of Pure Reason)
The raw, unstructured multiplicity of content given in intuition prior to conceptual unification by the understanding