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    It is not the case that Dualism is a psychological tendency, not a philosophically defensible position.

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    • 1.Descartes' interactionist dualism is grounded in the self-evident indubitability of res cogitans, which resists reduction to any physical description.
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    • 2.The explanatory gap between third-person physical accounts and first-person phenomenal experience (Levine 1983) remains unresolved by idealist dissolution strategies.
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    • 3.Dismissing dualism as mere psychology commits a genetic fallacy: the causal origin of a belief cannot determine its philosophical validity.
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    • 1.Property dualism, as defended by Chalmers, posits phenomenal consciousness as ontologically irreducible without requiring Cartesian substance dualism.
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    • 2.The 'hard problem' of consciousness demonstrates that no third-person physical account logically entails the existence of subjective experience, preserving a principled mind-body distinction.
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    • 1.Finite minds have a natural predisposition to distinguish what is 'outside us' from what is 'in us' when looking at reality.
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    • 2.This predisposition and its conditions, if understood correctly, reveal that the distinction does not reflect genuine metaphysical separateness.
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    • 3.The apparent duality of nature and mind collapses once the conditions of our perspective are properly comprehended.
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