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    It is not the case that The prohibition on presupposing contingent truths conflates the object-language content of hypotheses with the meta-level structural constraints that define a coherent probability space.

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    • 1.Some structural constraints (like exchangeability) are justified precisely by contingent empirical facts about symmetries in nature.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'object-level content' and 'meta-level structure' is itself philosophically contentious and context-dependent.
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    • 3.Rejecting all contingent presuppositions makes probability spaces arbitrary rather than principled, undermining their rational applicability.
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    • 1.Probability spaces require structural assumptions (σ-algebras, measure functions) independent of any specific hypothesis's truth value.
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    • 2.Conflating these levels leads to circular reasoning: using contingent facts to justify the framework that evaluates those facts.
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    • 3.Formal probability theory distinguishes sample space definition from event assignment, mirroring this object/meta-level distinction.
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