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    Challenges→Hyperintensional explanatory connections may exist in the world, not merely in our explanatory practices.

    Grounding-theoretic accounts (Rosen, Fine) that posit worldly hyperintensional structure face the Bennett-Wilson objection: grounding relations themselves resist non-circular metaphysical explanation.

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    Bennett-Wilson objection(metaphysics)
    A criticism (named after philosophers Karen Bennett and Jessica Wilson) arguing that grounding relations can't be explained without circular reasoning—you end up using grounding to explain grounding.
    Fine, Kit(The statement references Fine's framework as the basis for the argument)
    A contemporary philosopher known for developing supervaluationism, a theory about how language handles vague or fuzzy concepts.
    Grounding-theoretic accounts(metaphysics)
    Philosophical explanations that use the idea of grounding (one thing explaining another) as their main tool for understanding how reality works.
    Non-circular metaphysical explanation(metaphysics and logic)
    An explanation of why something exists or is true that doesn't rely on assuming the very thing you're trying to explain.

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    Rosen, Gideon(philosophy history)
    A contemporary metaphysician who developed theories about grounding and how abstract objects exist in reality.
    Worldly(metaphysics)
    Relating to the actual world and how things really are, rather than just how we think or talk about them.
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
    hyperintensional structure(as used in philosophical logic)
    An underlying framework or system that makes these ultra-fine distinctions between logically equivalent statements.
    metaphysical explanation(At least three varieties are distinguished in recent literature regarding how property-sharing explains resemblance)
    An explanation of why a fact obtains in terms of what grounds or accounts for it at the level of fundamental reality, not merely causal or logical explanation

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