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    It is not the case that Experimental difficulty in producing a state is an engineering constraint, not a principled logical or metaphysical objection to an argument's validity.

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    • 1.If a state is genuinely impossible to produce, this often reveals hidden logical contradictions in how we've defined it.
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    • 2.Empirical constraints sometimes expose that our theoretical assumptions violate fundamental principles (thermodynamics, quantum mechanics).
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'merely hard' from 'metaphysically impossible' requires examining why production fails—engineering difficulty alone doesn't settle this.
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    • 1.Logical validity depends only on argument structure, not on physical realizability of premises or conclusions.
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    • 2.Many valid mathematical proofs involve infinite processes or objects we cannot construct; feasibility is irrelevant to their truth.
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    • 3.Conflating practical difficulty with conceptual incoherence obscures genuine philosophical problems that deserve analysis.
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