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It is not the case that Davidson's extensionalist semantics shows that event identity is governed by causal roles, not propositional content or conceptualization.
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Events seem individuated partly by their constitutive properties (what they are), not only by downstream causal effects. Identity requires both directions.
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Two events with identical future causal roles but different origins or intrinsic natures intuitively seem distinct; pure extensionalism misses this.
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Content and conceptualization affect which causal chains an agent recognizes as relevant, so they do influence how events should be individuated cognitively.
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Physical events are individuated by their causal powers: two events with identical causal roles are the same event, regardless of description.
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Mental content supervenes on physical properties; what matters for event identity is the objective causal structure, not subjective conceptualization.
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This explains why the same neural event can be described mentalistically or physically without being two events—identity follows causal profile, not vocabulary.
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