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    It is not the case that A skeptic can coherently question re-identification procedures as an internal theoretical revision while provisionally operating within the framework, just as scientists question measurement axioms.

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    • 1.Re-identification criteria are constitutive of what 'the same object' means; questioning them while using that concept is performatively self-undermining.
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    • 2.Scientific axiom revision requires alternative frameworks with equal explanatory power; skepticism about re-identification offers no such replacement.
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    • 3.Operating within a framework while denying its identity conditions creates practical incoherence: one cannot coherently reason about persistence.
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    • 1.Scientific practice routinely revises foundational assumptions (e.g., simultaneity in relativity) while maintaining empirical coherence within theories.
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    • 2.Internal critique doesn't require external standpoint; mathematicians question axioms using derivations from those same axioms without incoherence.
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    • 3.Re-identification procedures are conventional rather than metaphysically necessary, making provisional skepticism about them rationally permissible.
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