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    Visual experience can play a merely enabling role in coming to know a mathematical truth without serving as evidence for that truth.

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    • 1.Visual experience may help a person acquire concepts needed to understand a mathematical proposition without giving reason to believe the proposition.
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    • 2.The visual experience of reading an argument may reveal the argument's content without helping one determine whether the argument is sound.
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    • 1.When visual inspection of a diagram reveals a geometric proof, the visual experience is doing epistemic work indistinguishable from evidential support.
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    • 2.The enabling/evidential distinction collapses when the visual content is constitutively sufficient to justify the mathematical belief it produces.
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    • 3.Giaquinto's own work on visual mathematical thinking shows that diagram-based reasoning tracks truth in ways that satisfy standard criteria for evidence.
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    • 1.Reliabilist epistemology counts a process as evidence-generating whenever it reliably produces true beliefs, regardless of its phenomenological or functional label.
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    • 2.Visual experiences that reliably occasion mathematical knowledge satisfy the reliabilist criterion for evidential status, making the enabling/evidence distinction theory-laden rather than principled.
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    In coming to know a mathematical truth visual experience can play a merely “enabling” role. For example, visual experience may have been a factor in a person’s getting certain concepts involved in a mathematical proposition, thus enabling her to understand the proposition, without giving her reason to believe it. Or the visual experience of reading an argument in a text book may enable one to find out just what the argument is, without helping her tell that the argument is sound. In earlier sect
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