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    It is not the case that Therefore, the claim conflates our ignorance of the answer with the answer itself being genuinely unsettled in reality.

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    • 1.Some domains (quantum mechanics, consciousness) may lack determinate facts independent of observation, making the distinction less clear.
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    • 2.The claim assumes 'genuinely unsettled in reality' is coherent, but vague or indeterminate states might legitimately describe certain phenomena.
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    • 3.Pragmatically, treating something as unsettled (lacking current determination) differs from claiming ignorance—they serve different functions.
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    • 1.Epistemic states (what we know) are distinct from metaphysical states (how reality is). Conflating them commits a basic category error.
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    • 2.Many historical 'unsettled' questions were actually settled facts we simply didn't know yet. Our ignorance didn't make reality indeterminate.
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    • 3.If ignorance made things genuinely unsettled, the same fact would be both settled and unsettled depending on who knows it—absurd.
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