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    It is not the case that Scientific knowledge of space is of a different kind from our knowledge of geometry.

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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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    • 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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