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    It is not the case that The act of constructing figures in intuition is a non-discursive cognitive operation irreducible to axiom-manipulation.

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    • 1.All apparent geometric insights reduce under scrutiny to implicit applications of prior axioms, definitions, and inference rules.
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    • 2.The claim conflates psychological immediacy (feeling non-discursive) with metaphysical irreducibility; perception feels direct but is computationally complex.
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    • 3.Formal axiom systems successfully predict and verify geometric truths, suggesting discursive operations are sufficient for geometric knowledge.
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    • 1.Geometric insight—seeing why a triangle's angles sum to 180°—involves grasping spatial relations that symbolic axioms alone cannot generate.
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    • 2.Mental imagery of constructions engages embodied spatial reasoning distinct from formal logical inference over symbols.
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    • 3.Axiom systems presuppose but cannot derive the intuitive understanding of what geometric objects *are* before manipulation begins.
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