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    It is not the case that Therefore formal identity cannot be stronger than essential identity if the entailment relation runs only one way and essential identity is ontologically more fundamental.

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    • 1.Formal identity (strict indistinguishability) may be logically stronger than essential identity even if the latter is ontologically fundamental.
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    • 2.Ontological fundamentality concerns causal/explanatory priority, not logical strength. These are distinct dimensions not reducible to each other.
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    • 3.One-way entailment only guarantees the entailer is necessary for the entailed; it says nothing about comparative strength of the relata themselves.
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    • 1.If essential identity grounds formal identity but not vice versa, then essential identity determines what formal identity can be.
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    • 2.Ontological fundamentality means a property constrains what derivative properties can possess. Formal identity is thus constrained by essential identity.
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    • 3.One-way entailment logically prevents the entailed property from being stronger than what entails it, since strength involves broader logical reach.
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