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    It is not the case that If intensional entities like senses or understandings are themselves structured and law-governed, Abelard's counterexample fails to establish that truth requires mind-independent referents.

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    • 1.Structure and law-governance in thought are themselves dependent on minds; they don't exist apart from cognitive activity.
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    • 2.If senses alone determine truth without worldly referents, we lose distinction between coherent falsehoods and truths about reality.
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    • 3.Abelard's counterexample succeeds precisely because intensional structure cannot ground determinate truth without external constraints.
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    • 1.Intensional structures (like logical rules governing concepts) exhibit objective regularities independent of any individual mind's beliefs.
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    • 2.If senses are internally structured by laws, they can ground truth-conditions without requiring external referents to exist.
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    • 3.Abelard's cases (e.g., chimera) show only that some thoughts lack referents, not that ALL truths require mind-independent objects.
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