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    Eliminative materialists like Churchland argue that folk ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Strict lawlike relations between the mental and the physical are impossible.

    Eliminative materialists like Churchland argue that folk psychological concepts like rationality will be replaced by precise neurophysiological descriptions.

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    • 1.Folk psychology uses vague, inconsistent concepts (e.g., 'rational' means different things in different contexts) that neuroscience can make precise.
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    • 2.Historical precedent shows science replaces folk concepts: 'phlogiston' and 'vital force' disappeared when better explanations emerged.
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    • 3.Neurophysiological descriptions can predict and explain behavior more accurately than folk psychological attributions alone.
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    • 1.Folk psychology and neuroscience operate at different explanatory levels; replacing one with the other commits a category error.
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    • 2.Understanding rationality requires normative standards (what *should* be rational), which neurophysiology describes but cannot derive.
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    • 3.Folk concepts serve social and practical functions (moral responsibility, communication) that neurophysiology alone cannot fulfill.
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