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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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