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    It is not the case that VSP thus purchases intuitive 'relevance' at the cost of severing modal logic from its Lewisian foundations, trading one philosophical desideratum for a more consequential theoretical loss.

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    • 1.Severing from Lewis's framework removes the only fully rigorous semantics available for modal logic with proven formal consistency.
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    • 2.Intuitive relevance is subjective and context-dependent, making it a weak basis compared to objective possible-worlds semantics.
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    • 3.The trade-off may be false: better foundational theories could provide both rigor and relevance without sacrificing either.
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    • 1.Lewisian foundations rest on contentious metaphysical commitments (concrete possible worlds) that many philosophers find implausible.
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    • 2.Intuitive relevance in modal logic better matches how mathematicians and logicians actually reason about possibility and necessity.
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    • 3.A framework that sacrifices foundational elegance for practical inferential accuracy may be theoretically superior overall.
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