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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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