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    Challenges→Property dualism may be more widespread in philosophy than its lack of explicit endorsement suggests

    A hierarchy within a single ontological category—physical properties—does not constitute dualism, which requires two fundamentally distinct kinds of property.

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    • 1.Dualism requires two fundamentally distinct *kinds* of property, not merely different levels or degrees within one kind.
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    • 2.Physical hierarchies (e.g., atomic vs. molecular properties) maintain causal closure and unified explanatory frameworks.
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    • 3.Ordering properties by complexity or emergence within physics doesn't introduce non-physical elements or violate physicalism.
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    • 1.If higher-level properties are irreducible to lower-level ones, they constitute a distinct explanatory category regardless of labels.
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    • 2.The claim assumes 'ontological category' is transparent—but ordering hierarchically may already imply fundamental distinctness in kind.
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    • 3.Historical dualisms often concealed themselves as hierarchical distinctions; formal denial of dualism doesn't establish its absence.
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