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    It is not the case that If 'tiger' can be legitimately individuated by ecological role, morphology, or genomic criteria depending on context, then 'being mammalian' carries no context-independent modal status as a necessary condition.

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    • 1.Context-dependent individuation of tigers doesn't entail context-dependence of their intrinsic modal properties once individuated.
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    • 2.Being mammalian could be necessary for tigers despite multiple valid individuation routes, since all routes converge on mammals.
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    • 3.The argument confuses epistemic accessibility of criteria with metaphysical status of necessity conditions.
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    • 1.Individuation criteria are pragmatically selected based on explanatory goals, suggesting no single criterion enjoys metaphysical priority.
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    • 2.If context-dependence applies to identity conditions, it should apply equally to modal properties derived from identity.
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    • 3.Biologists successfully classify organisms using incompatible criteria (phylogenetic vs. ecological), indicating mammalian status lacks fixed necessity.
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