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    It is not the case that Metaphysical explanation cannot be understood free from pragmatic constraints

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    • 1.Grounding relations obtain mind-independently between entities, regardless of any cognitive agent's explanatory interests or context.
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    • 2.Fine's work on ontological dependence shows metaphysical priority is a feature of reality's structure, not a product of inquiry framing.
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    • 3.If pragmatic constraints were constitutive of grounding, then grounding facts would vary with epistemic communities—an unacceptable form of relativism.
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    • 1.Van Inwagen's distinction between metaphysical and scientific explanation preserves an autonomous domain governed by necessity, not contextual salience.
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    • 2.The logical form of 'A in virtue of B' is a binary relation between facts that carries no indexical or context-sensitive components in its truth conditions.
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    • 1.Metaphysical explanations are pairs of context-sensitive questions and answers
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    • 2.The role of context in metaphysical explanation is ineliminable
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