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    Challenges→Ockham's formal consequences valid in virtue of intrinsic middles do not satisfy the (ST) criterion

    Ockham's intrinsic middles invoke definitional or essential connections between terms, which constrain admissible substitutions without violating (ST)'s formal intent.

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    • 1.Essential connections (e.g., 'bachelor' entails 'unmarried') genuinely constrain meaning without requiring infinite substitutional equivalences.
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    • 2.Ockham's framework preserves logical form while respecting semantic content, avoiding both nominalism's excess and realism's abstract entities.
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    • 3.Intrinsic middles explain why some substitutions preserve truth-value while others fail, grounding semantic rules in conceptual structure.
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    • 1.Essential definitions are theory-laden and context-dependent; no intrinsic middle decisively separates analytic from synthetic truths.
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    • 2.If middles constrain substitution, they introduce hidden semantic entities that undermine Ockham's parsimony principle.
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    • 3.Formal substitutional semantics (ST) requires only functional rules, not substantive conceptual connections between terms.
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