The more damaging objection, advanced by Brown, is that Norton's view cannot account for a priori knowledge generated by thought experiments about abstracta like numbers or logical possibility.
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(Properties are offered as an example of abstracta if they exist at all)
Abstract objects; things that do not exist in space and time, such as properties or universals
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.
logical possibility(Used in the context of evaluating whether Blockhead (a philosophical thought experiment) could exist)
A state of affairs that is not ruled out by the laws of logic; distinct from physical or metaphysical possibility