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    It is not the case that If 'the fact that snow is white' and 'the proposition that snow is white' were truly identical, substitution failures would be impossible—yet they systematically occur across modal and epistemic contexts.

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    • 1.Substitution failures occur because modal/epistemic operators create opaque contexts, not because facts and propositions differ. Same entity, different contexts.
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    • 2.The argument confuses metaphysical identity with epistemic accessibility. We might fail to recognize identicals under certain conceptual frameworks without denying identity.
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    • 3.If facts and propositions are genuinely distinct, we need criteria explaining what makes a proposition correspond to a fact—a harder problem than identity itself.
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    • 1.Facts are abstract entities about the world; propositions are linguistic/mental representations. Different ontological categories cannot be identical.
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    • 2.We can rationally doubt that 'snow is white' is true while not doubting the fact that snow is white. This epistemic asymmetry indicates non-identity.
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    • 3.Facts don't require language; propositions do. Identity requires all properties to be shared, so distinct property-possession means non-identity.
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