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    It is not the case that If the entailment chain through intermediate supervenience presupposes a fixed domain of individuals across worlds, it fails in variable-domain modal frameworks standard in philosophical logic.

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    • 1.Intermediate supervenience can be reformulated using restricted quantifiers within variable domains without loss of explanatory force.
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    • 2.The claim conflates technical formal requirements with substantive philosophical commitments—frameworks can be translated between domain models.
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    • 3.Many variable-domain systems preserve supervenience relations by relativizing them to accessibility relations and world-specific domains consistently.
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    • 1.Variable-domain semantics allow objects to exist in some worlds but not others, reflecting genuine metaphysical possibility.
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    • 2.Fixed-domain supervenience presupposes identity conditions across worlds that variable frameworks explicitly reject as contingent.
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    • 3.Standard modal logic textbooks treat constant domains and variable domains as genuinely distinct formal frameworks with different logical consequences.
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