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    It is not the case that A result that depends on a freely chosen partition cannot ground the objective classical world decoherence theorists claim to derive.

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    • 1.Partition choice reflects carving nature at joints; different partitions can all be objective descriptions of the same underlying physical structure.
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    • 2.Decoherence explains why *any* sufficiently coarse-grained partition exhibits classical behavior, not why specific partitions are objectively privileged.
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    • 3.Objectivity requires stable patterns across inquiries, not independence from all conceptual frameworks; partition-dependence is compatible with this weaker standard.
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    • 1.Objective facts cannot depend on observer choices; grounding requires mind-independence from human decisions about how to partition systems.
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    • 2.Decoherence theory claims to explain why classical reality emerges universally, but partition-dependence makes emergence relative to arbitrary choices.
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    • 3.If multiple partitions yield incompatible classical descriptions, at most one can represent objective reality, undermining decoherence's explanatory scope.
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