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    It is not the case that A cosmological perspective must supplement, but cannot replace, the personalist framework for understanding the human being.

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    • 1.Eliminative naturalists like Churchland argue that 'personhood' is a folk-psychological construct with no irreducible ontological status.
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    • 2.If neuroscience fully explains behavior via physical processes, the cosmological framework does not merely supplement personalism—it displaces it entirely.
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    • 1.Spinoza's substance monism entails that the human being is a finite mode of one infinite substance, making no framework irreducibly 'personal' at the foundational level.
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    • 2.If subjectivity itself is adequately explained as a determinate expression of universal natura naturans, the personalist framework is methodologically redundant rather than indispensable.
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    • 1.The framework of the irreducible is not exhaustive of the human condition.
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    • 2.Neglecting subjectivity makes a true understanding of the person impossible.
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