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    It is not the case that If the cost of eliminating modality is positing infinitely many causally isolated concrete universes, Occam's razor favors modal primitivism as the more parsimonious account of accidental properties.

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    • 1.Modal primitives are metaphysically opaque—positing irreducible possibility is less explanatory than grounding modality in concrete structural facts.
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    • 2.Infinitely many universes may violate no principle if they cost nothing metaphysically (e.g., if abstract or not causally efficacious in our universe).
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    • 3.Occam's razor compares theories by explanatory power and evidential support, not merely entity count; modal realism may better satisfy this standard.
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    • 1.Positing infinitely many concrete universes multiplies entities beyond necessity, violating Occam's razor more severely than positing irreducible modal facts.
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    • 2.Modal primitives require no commitment to unobservable causally-isolated domains, making them empirically more conservative than modal realism.
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    • 3.Modal primitivism explains accidental properties directly without the explanatory detour through branching universes, achieving greater elegance.
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