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    If humans successfully deploy causal and modal reasoning,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human conceptual ability is limited to natural concepts of qualities.

    If humans successfully deploy causal and modal reasoning, they possess concepts that cannot be reduced to qualities of the soul, refuting the exclusivity claim.

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    • 1.Causal reasoning requires distinguishing counterfactual scenarios, which cannot be reduced to observable soul qualities alone.
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    • 2.Modal concepts (possibility, necessity) track abstract logical structures that transcend particular psychological states or dispositions.
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    • 3.The soul, if defined as a unified substance with determinate qualities, cannot account for humans' ability to reason about uninstantiated possibilities.
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    • 1.Soul qualities could include dispositions or capacities to entertain counterfactuals, making causal reasoning compatible with exclusivity claims.
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    • 2.Modal reasoning might be explained as the soul's ability to construct and manipulate representations, not requiring non-reducible concepts.
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    • 3.The argument conflates concept possession with concept irreducibility; souls could possess these concepts through derived or emergent properties.
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