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

    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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    Enabling/evidence distinction(as used in philosophy of knowledge)
    The difference between something that merely makes knowledge possible versus something that actually serves as proof or justification for it.
    Evidential status(as used in epistemology)
    Whether something qualifies as evidence—basically, the question of whether it can justifiably support a belief or claim.
    Occasion(Edwards's occasionalist reinterpretation of second causation)
    The circumstance or event upon which God chooses to produce a particular effect, in accordance with God's customary methods and laws, but without being a real causal contributor to that effect.
    Reliabilist criterion(as used in epistemology)
    A philosophical standard that says something counts as good evidence if it reliably (consistently and accurately) produces true beliefs.

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    Theory-laden(in epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    Already shaped by or dependent on particular assumptions and theories you've already accepted, rather than being purely objective or neutral.
    Visual experiences(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    What you see and perceive through your eyes—the immediate sensory impressions of the world around you.
    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.
    mathematical knowledge(philosophy of mathematics and epistemology)
    Truths about numbers, shapes, and abstract objects that mathematicians consider proven and certain.
    principled(as used in logic and reasoning)
    Based on clear, consistent rules or standards rather than random choices or personal preference.

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