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    Invoking merely possible tokens to ground truth-condition... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Predicative types inherit their representational features from both their actual and possible tokens.

    Invoking merely possible tokens to ground truth-conditions smuggles in irreducibly modal facts, making the account explanatorily circular.

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    • 1.Truth-conditions require determinate facts about what would make a statement true, not mere appeals to unexplained possibilities.
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    • 2.Possible tokens are abstract entities whose existence and identity conditions are themselves modal facts requiring explanation.
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    • 3.If modal facts are primitive and unexplained, grounding truth in them leaves the semantics of modality itself unaccounted for.
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    • 1.Some foundational concepts (like possibility itself) need not be explained in non-modal terms without circularity being vicious.
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    • 2.Possible tokens can be understood structurally via their role in a semantic system, making their modality non-primitive there.
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    • 3.The charge assumes we must eliminate all modal vocabulary to avoid circularity, but mutual dependence among concepts is often legitimate.
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