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    Challenges→Demonstrating the formal invalidity of an argument via counterexample presupposes a principled way of discerning the full logical structure of that argument, and hence of distinguishing logical constants from nonlogical constants.

    If the formal structure assigned to an argument is itself theory-laden and revisable, then 'presupposing' that structure is not a precondition of counterexample practice but a contested theoretical choice.

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    Contested(the status of whether this view is correct)
    Disputed or disagreed upon; there's no consensus that it's true.
    Formal structure(comparing past and future)
    The basic pattern or logical shape of something, independent of what it's actually made of or contains.
    Precondition(as what recognitive practices are for conceptual content)
    Something that must exist or happen first, before something else can exist or happen.
    Presupposing(what the externalist secretly assumes in their reasoning)
    To assume something is already true without proving it, usually without realizing you're doing it.
    Revisable(as used in logical analysis)

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    Capable of being changed, overturned, or reconsidered based on new evidence or under different conditions.
    Theory-laden(in epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    Already shaped by or dependent on particular assumptions and theories you've already accepted, rather than being purely objective or neutral.
    counterexample([IHT] arg. 2)
    A possible obligational situation (casus possibilis positus) that verifies the antecedent and falsifies the consequent of an inference

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