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    Scientific knowledge of space is of a different kind from our knowledge of geometry.

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    • 1.Sensitive knowledge of corresponding objects can never achieve the same degree of certainty as geometrical knowledge.
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    • 2.Our knowledge of space derives from our knowledge of objects.
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    • 1.Einstein's general relativity demonstrated that physical geometry is empirically revisable, collapsing the analytic/synthetic distinction Kant relied upon.
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    • 2.If spatial structure is discovered through physical theorizing rather than pure intuition, scientific and geometrical knowledge share the same empirical foundation.
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    • 1.Reichenbach and the logical empiricists showed that geometric axioms function as coordinating principles whose truth is fixed by physical convention, not pure reason.
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    • 2.When geometry is conventional and empirically constrained, no principled epistemic difference separates it from other scientific knowledge about space.
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    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.

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    Sensitive knowledge of the corresponding objects, however, could never have this degree of certainty, and because our knowledge derives from our knowledge of objects it would seem that scientific knowledge of space is of a different kind from our knowledge of geometry. Thus, for Locke, Euclidean geometry provided one kind of knowledge, and experience and scientific experiment, another. Indeed, one might say that an epistemological gap remains to this day in philosophy in the form of a distinctio
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