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    Challenges→Causal contextuality does not imply that the ontological status of the physical properties involved must change to relational

    Tarski-style semantic externalism and Rovelli's relational quantum mechanics both ground property-attribution in observer-system relations, not in object-internal states.

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    • 1.Tarski's Convention T makes truth dependent on satisfying conditions relative to a language-user's interpretation, not intrinsic object properties.
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    • 2.Rovelli's RQM denies observer-independent facts; all properties emerge from interaction relations, making relationalism metaphysically parsimonious.
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    • 3.Both theories avoid problematic object-in-itself metaphysics by grounding properties in relational structures, yielding empirically adequate frameworks.
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    • 1.Tarski's semantics presupposes a mind-independent world satisfying sentences; it grounds truth in reference, not merely observer relations.
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    • 2.RQM requires facts about which systems have interacted; these relational facts seem observer-independent, undercutting pure relationalism.
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    • 3.The claim conflates different theoretical projects: Tarski addresses truth-conditions; RQM addresses quantum properties—they needn't share metaphysics.
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