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    It is not the case that An explanatorily incoherent escape strategy is not a genuine escape, making the original panpsychist entailment remain undefeated.

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    • 1.Some empirically adequate theories tolerate limited internal tensions; coherence is important but not always a knockout criterion for truth.
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    • 2.An escape strategy can be partially explanatorily useful even if globally incoherent, making 'undefeated' status unclear and context-dependent.
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    • 3.Panpsychism itself faces coherence challenges; demanding perfect coherence from alternatives applies an unfair double standard.
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    • 1.An escape strategy that contradicts itself or lacks internal logical coherence fails to genuinely avoid the original problem it targets.
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    • 2.Panpsychism's explanatory burden requires any counter-argument to maintain coherence; incoherent alternatives don't discharge this burden.
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    • 3.If a proposed solution is self-undermining, accepting it would be epistemically worse than accepting the original position it opposes.
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