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    It is not the case that Causey, Nagel, and classical reductionists distinguish formal intractability from ontological irreducibility: epistemic limits do not entail compositional failure.

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    • 1.If a system's behavior cannot even theoretically be predicted from its parts, skepticism arises whether compositional description is truly complete.
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    • 2.Distinguishing epistemic limits from ontological gaps risks becoming unfalsifiable: any irreducibility claim can be dismissed as mere 'ignorance gaps.'
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    • 3.Emergence phenomena (liquid water's wetness) suggest some properties depend on organization in ways that matter for what 'composition' fundamentally means.
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    • 1.Computational complexity (P vs NP) shows systems can be composed of simple parts yet resist algorithmic prediction without ontological magic.
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    • 2.Neural consciousness may be fully reducible to microphysics while remaining epistemically opaque due to measurement constraints, not missing parts.
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    • 3.Mathematical theorems are derivable from axioms in principle, yet proofs can be astronomically long—proving epistemic tractability differs from conceptual composition.
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