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    Challenges→The connective 'because' is hyperintensional.

    If 'because' tracks exact truthmakers rather than sentence structure, its discrimination between 'A' and '~~A' is explained by their distinct grounding conditions, not by hyperintensionality.

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    Key Terms

    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.
    grounding conditions(as used in metaphysics)
    The specific facts or circumstances that serve as the fundamental reason or explanation for why something is true.
    hyperintensionality(Philosophy of language, possible worlds semantics)
    A property of contexts or frameworks where sentences that agree in truth value across all possible worlds can still differ in meaning or truth conditions
    sentence structure(as used in linguistics and philosophy of language)
    The grammatical form or way a sentence is written and organized, such as whether it uses double negatives or different word order.

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    truthmakers(as used in metaphysics and logic)
    In philosophy, a truthmaker is the thing in the world that makes a statement true. For example, the existence of snow is what makes the statement 'snow is white' true.
    ~~A(as used in logic notation)
    A double negation—saying 'not not A'—which in standard logic means the same thing as just saying 'A', but may have a different explanation or grounding for why it's true.

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