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    It is not the case that Abelard's criterion—that the antecedent's sense 'compels' the consequent—conflates semantic entailment with metaphysical necessity, which are independently variable.

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    • 1.Medieval logicians like Abelard understood 'necessity' primarily through logical structure, not modern metaphysical categories.
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    • 2.The distinction between semantic and metaphysical necessity may be a modern conceptual framework Abelard's texts don't address.
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    • 3.Conflation and independence aren't the same claim—entailment might *require* necessity without the distinction being false.
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    • 1.Semantic entailment (what meanings require) can hold without metaphysical necessity (what reality requires).
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    • 2.'Bachelors are unmarried' is semantically entailed but not metaphysically necessary—it depends on linguistic convention.
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    • 3.Abelard's 'compulsion' criterion illegitimately treats conceptual relationships as ontological facts.
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