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    If the positum suspends actuality rather than relocating ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→When a false positum conflicts with the present moment, the possibility it describes must be referred to some other time, not the present.

    If the positum suspends actuality rather than relocating the proposition temporally, its possibility is grounded in logical compossibility, not temporal indexing.

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    • 1.Logical compossibility is intrinsic to propositions, whereas temporal indexing depends on external frameworks that vary across reference systems.
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    • 2.Modal claims about what is possible require consistency conditions independent of when propositions are entertained or asserted.
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    • 3.Suspending actuality allows modal operators to function on conceptual content alone, avoiding the circularity of grounding possibility in temporal location.
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    • 1.Logical compossibility itself presupposes modal notions that seem to require explanation rather than serving as fundamental grounds for possibility.
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    • 2.Temporal indexing provides concrete, empirically tractable criteria for possibility that compossibility alone cannot specify without additional assumptions.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical grounding with logical consistency; two propositions can be logically compossible while metaphysically impossible.
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