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    It is not the case that Schiffer's 'something from nothing' objection holds that trivial inferences like 'x is courageous, therefore x has the property of courage' are valid.

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    • 1.The inference commits a type-token confusion: adjectives and abstract nouns refer to different logical categories.
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    • 2.Valid inference requires the conclusion to add genuine content; mere relabeling of existing terms lacks inferential substance.
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    • 3.Accepting such trivial inferences threatens to collapse distinctions between linguistic paraphrase and logical entailment.
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    • 1.Property ascriptions like 'courage' are just reformulations of predicates already contained in the premise 'x is courageous'.
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    • 2.Logic permits inferences where the conclusion merely unpacks or makes explicit what was implicitly present in the premise.
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    • 3.Denying such trivial inferences would undermine basic analytic practices in philosophy and semantics.
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