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    Challenges→Conceptual possibility is too weak to establish metaphysical possibility without further qualification and argument.

    When a scenario is positively conceivable under the primary intension of all terms involved, this constitutes evidence of genuine metaphysical possibility that the supporting argument's single-intension treatment of 'conceptual possibility' fails to rebut.

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    Single-intension treatment(in philosophy of language)
    An approach that treats a word as having just one fixed meaning, without distinguishing between different ways we might understand it.
    conceivable(The constrained definition of conceivability adopted for the conceivability argument.)
    A is conceivable if and only if not-A cannot be ruled out a priori (i.e., A cannot be known a priori to be false).
    conceptual possibility(Distinguished from metaphysical possibility in the context of the zombie argument)
    The absence of obvious logical contradiction in an idea; a scenario that can be coherently conceived without apparent inconsistency.
    metaphysical possibility(Distinguished from mathematical possibility to argue that some mathematically consistent results are ruled out by the nature of concrete reality)
    What is possible in the concrete world, which is a more restrictive domain than mathematical possibility

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    primary intension(two-dimensional semantics)
    The semantic value of an expression evaluated across worlds considered as actual, where the reference is determined anew in each world according to the reference-fixing description

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