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    It is not the case that If B-property configurations cannot be freely isolated into worlds without altering their relational character, the Paull-Sider construction fails to generate the required globally divergent world-pair.

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    • 1.B-properties can be abstractly characterized independent of particular instantiations, allowing counterfactual isolation without alteration.
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    • 2.The Paull-Sider construction uses modal operators precisely to generate divergence without requiring physical severance of actual relations.
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    • 3.Relational dependence doesn't entail that isolated configurations become unrecognizable instances of the original property-types.
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    • 1.B-properties are fundamentally relational: their identity depends on spatiotemporal and causal connections to other properties.
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    • 2.Isolating any B-property configuration necessarily severs these constitutive relations, thereby transforming what is being isolated.
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    • 3.Without genuine isolation preserving relational character, Paull-Sider cannot construct truly divergent worlds differing only in B-properties.
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