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    It is not the case that Following Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations, the determinacy of length relations depends on normative practices of application, not on platonic structures that fix their own extensions independently of human activity.

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    • 1.Normative practices themselves must track something objective, else disagreement over measurement would be meaningless rather than mistaken.
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    • 2.Length relations hold counterfactually even when no humans practice measurement—suggesting independence from actual normative activity.
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    • 3.If determinacy requires only social agreement, then any consistent measurement community would be equally correct, making science epistemically arbitrary.
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    • 1.Mathematical rules like length measurement have no intrinsic meaning apart from communal agreement on how to apply them in practice.
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    • 2.If Platonic objects existed independently, they couldn't causally explain why humans converge on identical measurement standards.
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    • 3.The same physical object receives different length descriptions across measurement systems, showing length facts depend on normative frameworks.
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