Any valid derivation of physicalism about the instantiated strict properties therefore smuggles in an empiricalpremise that Davidson never acknowledges or defends within his framework.
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derivation(Used to distinguish arbitrary proofs from proofs grounded in agreed and plausible premises)
A logical proof of a proposition produced from a set of premises and rules of inference
framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
instantiated(as used in metaphysics and logic)
Made real or brought into existence as an actual example; like when a concept becomes a real thing you can observe.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
physicalism(The target position that the knowledge argument is designed to refute)
The thesis that physical theory can in principle account for everything there is to know about the world