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    It is not the case that If paraphrase choice determines commitment, then switching to T* genuinely masks rather than eliminates ontological costs, confirming the entailment account's superiority.

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    • 1.Genuine paraphrase (T*) can eliminate costs by showing formerly necessary entities are definable from acceptable ones—not merely masked but dissolved.
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    • 2.Masking versus eliminating is unclear: if T* and T are extensionally equivalent, the distinction between hiding and solving costs becomes metaphysically unmotivated.
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    • 3.The entailment account begs the question by assuming commitment follows paraphrase choice, rather than proving paraphrase reveals pre-existing commitments.
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    • 1.Paraphrase choice reveals what we're genuinely committed to: switching frameworks without eliminating costs shows we're hiding rather than solving problems.
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    • 2.Masking ontological costs (via T*) is worse than acknowledging them, because it obscures what entities our theories actually require us to accept.
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    • 3.The entailment account succeeds because it tracks commitment through logical consequences, not merely through surface-level reformulation.
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