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    Challenges→Metaphysical modal entailment is insufficient as a criterion for ontological commitment because ontological commitment is sensitive to distinctions that metaphysical necessity cannot accommodate.

    Metaphysical necessity is too coarse-grained to track these distinctions (e.g., it cannot distinguish triangular polygons from trilateral polygons, or relevant from irrelevant necessary existents).

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    Relevant necessary existents(as used in metaphysics and ontology)
    Things that must exist and actually matter or make a difference to what we're studying, as opposed to irrelevant things that also must exist but don't affect the issue at hand.
    Triangular polygons(as used in geometry and metaphysics)
    A shape defined by having three angles; here it's being described based on its angle-based properties.
    Trilateral polygons

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    (as used in geometry and metaphysics)
    A shape defined by having three sides; here it's being described based on its side-based properties.
    coarse-grained(Ontology of properties and criteria of individuation)
    Descriptive of individuation criteria or entities that make fewer distinctions; extensional criteria are paradigmatically coarse-grained relative to intensional or hyperintensional ones
    metaphysical necessity(Distinguishing types of necessity)
    A property of things that must be the case but not purely by logical form — true in all possible worlds without being logical tautologies

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    All of these objections to modal criteria for ontological commitment have a common source: ontological commitment appears to be sensitive to distinctions that metaphysical necessity cannot accommodate. One solution, then, would be to seek a more discriminating entailment relation. Thus, the third objection suggests that a priori entailment should replace metaphysically modal entailment. In the modal quantifier criterion, one could quantify over domains and sub-domains of worlds that are conceptu

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