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    It is not the case that The hole indeterminism is empirically undetectable

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    • 1.Leibniz's principle of the identity of indiscernibles implies that empirically indistinguishable models represent the same physical state of affairs.
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    • 2.If hole-shifted models represent identical physical situations, the 'indeterminism' is merely a notational artifact of the mathematical formalism, not a genuine physical underdetermination.
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    • 3.Earman and Norton's own diagnosis suggests the hole argument motivates substantivalism's rejection, not genuine empirical indeterminism in the world.
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    • 1.Structural realism, as defended by Ladyman and French, holds that physical reality is constituted by structural relations rather than individual point-identities.
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    • 2.Under structural realism, diffeomorphically related models share identical relational structure and therefore describe no empirically distinct possibilities whatsoever.
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    • 3.If no distinct possibilities exist, the hole argument establishes formal underdetermination within a representational framework rather than genuine ontic indeterminism detectable or otherwise.
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    • 1.The original model <M, g, T> and the hole-shifted model <M, h*g, h*T> are empirically indistinguishable
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    • 2.If two models are empirically indistinguishable, no observation can differentiate between them
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