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    It is not the case that The supporting argument conflates ontological dependence with logical or constitutive grounding, which are distinct relations in the literature on essence.

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    • 1.Modern grounding literature increasingly treats grounding as unified across ontological and conceptual domains.
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    • 2.The distinction assumes a sharp divide between being and knowledge that substantive metaphysical arguments often legitimately blur.
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    • 3.Practitioners often use 'grounding' to cover all forms of dependence, making the conflation terminologically standard rather than erroneous.
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    • 1.Ontological dependence concerns what exists; logical grounding concerns what follows from concepts. These answer different questions.
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    • 2.A thing can be logically grounded in principles without ontologically depending on them, as mathematics shows.
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    • 3.Conflating these relations obscures whether arguments about essence appeal to existence-claims or conceptual-claims.
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