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    Challenges→Moral statement E entails disjunction D

    Two sentences with identical truth sets can diverge in what they entail if their constitutive grounds differ, so D need not inherit E's entailment profile.

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    • 1.Grounding is finer-grained than truth conditions: what makes something true differs from whether it is true.
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    • 2.Entailment tracks explanatory relationships, not just truth-value preservation across possible worlds.
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    • 3.D and E can be true via different causal or metaphysical structures, yielding different downstream consequences.
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    • 1.If D and E have identical truth sets, they share all truth-conditions in any possible world, making their grounds irrelevant to entailment.
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    • 2.Entailment is a logical relation defined by truth-preservation, not by constitutive grounds or metaphysical structure.
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    • 3.Allowing ground-dependent entailment divergence risks making entailment too fine-grained to be a stable logical notion.
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