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    Formal validity is not exhausted by syntactic form alone;... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The inference in question is not valid based upon its logical form

    Formal validity is not exhausted by syntactic form alone; semantic consequence relations can ground validity independently of form.

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    • 1.Valid inferences in natural language depend on meaning: 'All bachelors are unmarried' is valid by semantic content, not formal structure alone.
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    • 2.Semantic entailment can hold across formally distinct structures when propositions share necessary conceptual relationships independent of syntax.
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    • 3.Formal systems require interpretation to connect to reality; validity ultimately depends on how semantic content maps to truth conditions.
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    • 1.Semantic consequence presupposes formal validity; distinguishing 'valid' arguments requires formal criteria that don't themselves depend on meaning.
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    • 2.Appeals to semantic grounding risk circularity: determining which semantic relations count as validity-grounding requires prior logical principles.
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    • 3.Formal validity's strength lies precisely in being independent of content, allowing universal application across domains without semantic ambiguity.
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