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    Challenges→Knowledge of the true nature of material objects requires abstracting from all relations of time.

    If temporal abstraction removes the very conditions under which objects can be known, such abstraction yields no knowledge of objects at all.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires epistemic access to an object's actual properties as they exist in real conditions.
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    • 2.Temporal abstraction necessarily removes contextual, relational, and dynamic properties constitutive of objects.
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    • 3.Without access to constitutive properties, claims about the abstracted object lack truth-conditions grounded in reality.
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    • 1.Knowledge of structures, laws, and patterns can be genuine even when abstracted from particular temporal instantiations.
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    • 2.Removing conditions needn't eliminate all conditions; abstract knowledge may target invariant features independent of temporal context.
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    • 3.Mathematics and logic provide knowledge through abstraction, suggesting abstraction itself doesn't inherently prevent knowledge-generation.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Without access to constitutive properties, claims about the abstracted object la...