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    Identity theories can retain explanatory power by groundi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If the identity theorist is right, explanatory pretensions about truth must be abandoned.

    Identity theories can retain explanatory power by grounding truth in the structural isomorphism between propositions and facts, not mere co-reference.

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    • 1.Structural isomorphism explains why false propositions can be meaningful without requiring their referents to exist.
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    • 2.Co-reference alone cannot account for how different proposition-orderings generate different truths from identical constituents.
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    • 3.Isomorphic mapping preserves explanatory relations between logical and metaphysical structure, avoiding crude referential collapse.
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    • 1.Structural isomorphism is itself explanatorily dependent on prior identity relations—it cannot ground them without circularity.
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    • 2.The notion of 'structure' doing truth-making work remains metaphysically opaque without independent criteria for structural adequacy.
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    • 3.Isomorphism may preserve form while remaining silent on why particular structures rather than others determine truth conditions.
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