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    Challenges→A probative system need not be relativistically fundamental to be suitable for determining spacetime structure, only reliable and systematically correctable.

    Non-fundamental systems may succeed locally but fail at boundaries where hidden assumptions break down; reliability without fundamentality creates illusion of understanding without actual knowledge.

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    Key Terms

    Hidden assumptions(explaining why systems fail when moved to new contexts where those unspoken beliefs don't hold true)
    Beliefs or ideas we're using without realizing it—we take them for granted without ever stating them clearly.
    Illusion of understanding(the danger of systems that seem to work but lack real foundations)
    Thinking you know something when you actually don't—being fooled into believing you grasp something better than you really do.
    Locally(as used in mathematics and physics)
    In a small, limited area or region, as opposed to looking at the whole thing at once.
    Non-fundamental(describing systems that work on the surface but may have shaky foundations)
    Something that isn't based on basic, basic underlying principles—it's built on top of other things that might themselves need explanation.

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    boundaries(realist theories of boundaries)
    Lower-dimensional entities such as points, lines, and surfaces
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    fundamental(as used in metaphysics)
    Basic, primary, or most essential—the deepest level of something, not derived from anything else.
    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.
    reliability(what induction is trying to prove about itself)
    The quality of consistently producing correct or trustworthy results; something you can depend on to work.

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