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    Length is an objective property with an extensive structure that exists independently of human measurement activities

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    • 1.The empirical regularities displayed by individual objects' lengths when ordered and concatenated require explanation
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    • 2.The best explanation of these empirical regularities is that length is an objective property with an extensive structure
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    • 3.Relations among lengths such as 'longer than' and 'sum of' exist independently of whether any objects happen to be ordered and concatenated by humans
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    • 1.Empirical regularities in length comparisons are fully explained by the structural features of our measurement practices and conventions, not by mind-independent properties.
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    • 2.Poincaré's conventionalism demonstrates that geometric and metric facts are determined by adopted conventions, making 'objective length' a category that presupposes rather than grounds our measurement framework.
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    • 3.The inference to best explanation in Argument 1-2 cannot discriminate between a mind-independent extensive structure and a deeply entrenched intersubjective practice that generates identical observational predictions.
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    • 1.Premises P3 and P4 illicitly assume that abstract relational structures like 'longer than' can exist uninstantiated and independently of any cognitive framework capable of individuating them.
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    • 2.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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    For example, a typical realist about length measurement would argue that the empirical regularities displayed by individual objects’ lengths when they are ordered and concatenated are best explained by assuming that length is an objective property that has an extensive structure (Swoyer 1987: 271–4). That is, relations among lengths such as “longer than” and “sum of” exist independently of whether any objects happen to be ordered and concatenated by humans, and indeed independently of whether ob
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    The empirical regularities displayed by individual objects' lengths when ordered...
    The inference to best explanation in Argument 1-2 cannot discriminate between a ...
    These relations exist independently of whether objects of some particular length...
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