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

    Ontological commitment tracks what a theory's truth genuinely requires the existence of, and this requirement is sensitive to asymmetric essential dependencies that necessity, being symmetric, cannot capture.

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    Key Terms

    Essential dependencies(as used in metaphysics)
    When one thing fundamentally depends on another thing in order to exist or be what it is—like how a shadow depends on light.
    Necessity (modal necessity)(as used in modal logic and metaphysics)
    Something that must be true in all possible situations, no matter what—the opposite of something that's merely contingent or could be otherwise.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Symmetric(describes two agents in the same informational position)
    Perfectly matched or identical in all relevant ways; having the same structure or properties.
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    (as used in logic and epistemology)
    When two things are treated differently or unequally, rather than being balanced or fair—like giving one side of an argument more weight than the other.
    ontological commitment(Used to derive that literal truth of 'a is F' entails existence of a)
    The criterion by which acceptance of a sentence as literally true commits one to the existence of the objects referred to by singular terms in that sentence, provided the sentence cannot be paraphrased away.

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