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    It is not the case that Broad treats presentedness as a primitive phenomenal property that cannot be further elucidated

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    • 1.Treating a phenomenal property as primitive is a legitimate and often necessary theoretical move, as Moore demonstrated with 'good' in Principia Ethica.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates absence of reductive analysis with absence of philosophical elucidation, a distinction Broad's holistic approach respects.
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    • 3.Broad's silence on mechanism is consistent with a principled anti-reductionist stance, not an oversight or theoretical failure.
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    • 1.Broad explicitly grounds presentedness in the specious present framework inherited from James and Husserl, providing structural phenomenological context.
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    • 2.Locating a property within an established theoretical framework constitutes elucidation even when no reductive analysis is offered.
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    • 1.Broad is silent on how presentedness works as a phenomenal property
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    • 2.The only available construal of presentedness (Humean force and vivacity) fails to do the required explanatory work
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    • 3.When a theorist offers no account of how a property functions, the property is being treated as primitive
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