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    It is not the case that Rigid rods and ideal clocks are unsuitable for determining the inherent structures of spacetime postulated by the theory of relativity.

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    • 1.Rigid rods and clocks, while not fundamental, serve as operationally indispensable epistemic bridges between abstract spacetime structure and empirical measurement.
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    • 2.A probative system need not be relativistically fundamental to be suitable for determining spacetime structure, only reliable and systematically correctable.
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    • 3.Reichenbach and Bridgman's operationalist tradition demonstrates that physical coordinative definitions using rods and clocks successfully ground metrical spacetime relations in practice.
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    • 1.Brown and Pooley's dynamical approach establishes that rods and clocks comportment is explained by Lorentz-covariant dynamical laws, making them legitimate trackers of spacetime geometry.
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    • 2.If the behavior of rods and clocks is fully governed by relativistically well-formed laws, the ill-definedness objection conflates the instrument with the underlying physical process it instantiates.
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    • 1.Rigid rods and ideal clocks are relativistically ill-defined probative systems.
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    • 2.Only well-defined probative systems are suitable for determining the inherent structures of spacetime.
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