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    Challenges→The entailment relation invoked by an entailment account of ontological commitment must be knowable a priori by any ideally rational agent.

    Rational accessibility to ontological commitment is thus compatible with its being discoverable only through a combination of logical analysis and empirical investigation.

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    • 1.Logic alone cannot determine which entities exist; empirical data constrains what ontologies are rationally acceptable.
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    • 2.Science successfully reveals hidden entities (electrons, genes) through combined logical inference and experimental evidence.
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    • 3.Rational accessibility doesn't require immediate intuitive obviousness; discoverable-through-investigation is a legitimate epistemic standard.
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    • 1.If ontological commitment requires empirical discovery, then pre-empirical logical ontologies lack rational accessibility, contradicting the claim.
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    • 2.Combining logic and empirics risks circularity: we use ontological assumptions to interpret data, then cite data as evidence for those assumptions.
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    • 3.Pure logical analysis already reveals key ontological commitments; adding empirics muddles rather than clarifies rational justification.
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