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    The Langton and Lewis account is most charitably interpre... — Carmelics
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    The Langton and Lewis account is most charitably interpreted as an account of duplication preservation or qualitative metaphysical necessitation interiority

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    • 1.The Langton and Lewis account fails as an account of qualitative identity interior properties
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    • 2.Like the Lewis 1986a account, the Langton and Lewis account faces similar interpretive challenges
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    • 1.Langton and Lewis explicitly define intrinsicality via perfectly natural properties, not via duplication-preservation as a primitive.
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    • 2.The duplication-preservation account is Lewis's 1983 framework; conflating it with the 1998 Langton-Lewis naturalness account misreads the dialectical progression.
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    • 3.Charitable interpretation requires tracking an author's stated theoretical commitments, which here center on natural properties, not modal duplication conditions.
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    • 1.Yablo's (1999) independence-based account shows intrinsicality can be analyzed without invoking duplication, undermining the assumption that Langton-Lewis must be so interpreted.
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    • 2.If Langton and Lewis's account reduces to duplication-preservation, it becomes explanatorily redundant given Lewis 1986a, which Langton and Lewis explicitly sought to improve upon.
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    Langton and Lewis put forward their account as only an analysis of qualitative intrinsic properties, rather than intrinsic properties in general. Their account, however, arguably fails as an account of qualitative identity interior properties since, given numbers necessarily exist, it classifies being such that there is a number as intrinsic. Therefore, like the Lewis 1986a account, the Langton and Lewis account is arguably most charitably interpreted as an account of duplication preservation, o
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