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    Challenges→The connective 'because' is hyperintensional.

    A connective that is merely sensitive to metaphysical ground-distinctions among necessarily equivalent propositions need not be classified as hyperintensional in the standard Nolan–Berto sense.

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    Ground (metaphysical ground)(metaphysics)
    The underlying reason or foundation for why something exists or is true; what makes something the case at the deepest level.
    Nolan–Berto(contemporary philosophy)
    A reference to philosophers Ryan Nolan and Francesco Berto, who developed a specific technical definition of 'hyperintensionality' in modern logic.
    connective(Used to characterize 'because' as analogous to logical operators like '&' and '∼')
    An expression that links sentences without expressing a relation that holds between the states of affairs, facts, or tropes that these sentences denote
    hyperintensional(Applied to explanation and the connective 'because')
    A context is hyperintensional when expressions within it cannot be substituted with necessary equivalents salva veritate — i.e., substituting one necessarily equivalent expression for another can change the truth value of the containing sentence.

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    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
    necessarily equivalent(describes when two propositions are always logically the same)
    Two statements that must always have the same truth value—if one is true, the other must be true, and vice versa, in every possible situation.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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