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    Challenges→Only mind or spirit satisfies the ontological conditions for genuine substantiality

    If a substance need only be causa sui and conceivable through itself alone, then the idealist must provide additional criteria excluding neutral or physical monism, which they have not established.

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    Conceivable through itself alone(epistemology/metaphysics)
    The ability to fully understand or imagine something just by thinking about it, without needing to refer to anything outside of it.
    Physical monism(metaphysics)
    A philosophical view that everything in reality is ultimately physical matter; there is only one type of substance and it's material.
    causa sui(Invoked as a Western analogue to the Daoist concept of ziran)
    A being that is the cause of itself; a concept from the Thomist tradition denoting necessity and aseity — existence grounded in nothing external
    criteria(Dworkin's term for what he attributes to positivist legal theorists like Hart)
    Uncontroversial shared tests used by lawyers to determine the truth of propositions of law
    idealism

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    (Presented as a consequence of the coherence theory of truth, but not exclusive to it)
    The view that one's beliefs constitute the world
    neutral monism(Target of the objection from experience)
    A metaphysical view positing that reality is fundamentally composed of a neutral base that is neither mental nor physical
    substance(Spinoza's metaphysics; criteria include (i) necessity and (ii) self-subsistence)
    The fundamental existent that is wholly necessary and self-subsistent, not depending on anything else for its existence

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