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(1992) Euclid's heritage, Dordrecht, Springer.
In the thesis 'space is three-dimensional" we treat space linguistically exactly as we treat the moon or the Eiffel Tower in the sentences "the moon is spherical" and "the Eiffel Tower stands in Paris." The grammatical correctness of the three sentences and our familiarity in ordinary language with such sentences suggests to us that space is an object in the same way that the moon is a natural object and the Eiffel Tower is an artificial object. This means that the linguistic form of the thesis creates the appearance of substantiality, as if "there were" a proper thing about which we can make statements concerning when it is found, where, and what its other properties are.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8096-0_7
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Janich, P. (1992). Knowledge about space, in Euclid's heritage, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 121-135.
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