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    It is not the case that Eliminativist and illusionist positions (Dennett, Frankish) dissolve the explanatory gap by reconceiving phenomenal consciousness itself, removing the target the argument assumes is irreducible.

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    • 1.Reconceiving consciousness doesn't explain the explanandum; it merely stipulates it away, leaving the hard problem of why experience seems irreducibly subjective.
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    • 2.Our direct access to phenomenal properties gives them evidential authority that conceptual revision alone cannot override without begging the question against realism.
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    • 3.Eliminativism must explain what actually exists in place of consciousness; denying the phenomenon without positive replacement is metaphysically incomplete.
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    • 1.If phenomenal consciousness is a folk-psychological construct rather than a natural kind, reconceiving it dissolves pseudo-problems based on confused categories.
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    • 2.The explanatory gap persists only because we assume introspective appearances reveal consciousness's true nature; revising that assumption resolves the impasse.
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    • 3.Successful scientific ontology routinely eliminates entities (phlogiston, vital forces) posited by earlier frameworks; consciousness may follow this pattern.
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