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    Challenges→Cases of illusion and cases of delusion/hallucination are of the same basic type and warrant the same type of explanation

    Cases with structurally different causal histories belong to different explanatory types, regardless of phenomenological similarity at the level of sense-data.

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    • 1.Explanation aims to reveal underlying mechanisms, not merely describe appearances. Identical appearances from different causes represent genuinely different explanations.
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    • 2.Scientific understanding requires causal-mechanistic knowledge. Two systems with identical phenomenology but different causal structures require distinct scientific explanations.
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    • 3.Counterfactual dependence varies with causal structure. Systems with different causal histories show different modal properties, so they belong to different explanatory types.
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    • 1.Explanatory type classification should track what matters for prediction and intervention. If causal differences produce identical observable outcomes, they may not constitute different explanatory types.
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    • 2.Occam's razor favors unified explanations. Multiplying explanatory types based on unobservable causal differences violates parsimony without empirical justification.
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    • 3.Phenomenological similarity at the level of sense-data is precisely what determines explanatory adequacy for most practical purposes and scientific applications.
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