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    Supports→Metaphysical reductions must always be backed by apriori entailments between the base-level claim and the target claim.

    Conceptual analyses are knowable apriori.

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    The role of conceptual analysis is to show that a putative reduction respects the original meaning of the target expression (Jackson 1998a, 28). A physicalist won’t succeed in accounting for free will if she identifies free will with having a temperature of 37.4º C – such a “reduction” would simply change the subject under discussion. A successful reduction must be answerable to our original shared understanding of the target expression—and elucidating this original understanding just is what co

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