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    It is not the case that If content-determination is already achieved by externalist causal chains, introducing triangulation adds no additional epistemic or semantic work, making it structurally redundant.

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    • 1.Causal chains alone cannot distinguish between intentionally equivalent representations (e.g., twin-Earth cases require more than causal history).
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    • 2.Triangulation adds distinctly different work: it explains how misrepresentation is *normatively* possible by grounding content in three-way relations, not mere causation.
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    • 3.The interpreter's perspective generates standards for correct vs. incorrect application that causal chains alone cannot provide without circularity.
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    • 1.Externalist causal chains (historical/causal relations) already fix reference by establishing systematic correlations between representations and world.
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    • 2.Triangulation introduces a third relatum (the interpreter) whose role can be entirely explained by first-order causal mechanisms without additional semantic machinery.
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    • 3.If two theories explain the same phenomena with identical predictive power, parsimony favors the simpler one lacking redundant components.
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