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    Modal entailment fails to satisfy the epistemic constraint required for an entailment account of ontological commitment.

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    • 1.The epistemic constraint requires that ontological commitments be knowable a priori.
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    • 2.Following Kripke (1980), there are necessary propositions that cannot be known a priori.
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    • 3.If 'Water is H2O' is metaphysically necessary but not knowable a priori, then the theory containing 'Water exists' modally entails that hydrogen exists.
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    If the notion of ontological commitment is to play a role in theory choice or clarifying ontological disputes, then the ontological commitments of a theory must be rationally accessible; failure to acknowledge the ontological commitments of one's theory must be a rational failing (see Michael 2008). That puts the following epistemic constraint on the entailment relation that is invoked by an entailment account of ontological commitment: the entailments of a theory must be knowable by any ideally
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