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    Challenges→The Linsky-Zalta-Williamson position that necessarily everything necessarily exists is only as plausible as its explanation of the intuitive contingency of ordinary objects.

    A position that successfully reinterprets an intuition in terms of a nearby, well-defined distinction has not failed to account for it but has deepened our understanding of it.

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    • 1.Intuitions often conflate distinct concepts; clarifying their structure reveals what we were actually tracking.
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    • 2.Understanding requires precision. A vague intuition gains explanatory power once grounded in rigorous distinctions.
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    • 3.Science advances by reinterpreting folk concepts (heat→kinetic energy). Such reinterpretations deepen rather than dismiss understanding.
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    • 1.Reinterpretation can quietly change the subject: the new distinction may address a different question than the original intuition.
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    • 2.Some intuitions resist nearby distinctions; forcing them into artificial categories loses rather than preserves their insight.
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    • 3.Calling reinterpretation 'deepening' assumes intuitions are incomplete sketches. But they may be irreducibly holistic or non-propositional.
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