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    It is not the case that Length is an objective property with an extensive structure that exists independently of human measurement activities

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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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    • 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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