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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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.