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    If internal aspects were the sole cognitive support, succ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The appearance of an internally cognizable aspect, not an external object, is the actual cognitive support.

    If internal aspects were the sole cognitive support, successful perceptual discrimination of distinct external particulars would be inexplicable without ad hoc stipulation.

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    • 1.Internal states alone cannot carry information about external particulars unless they causally co-vary with those particulars in systematic ways.
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    • 2.Two subjects with identical internal states could discriminate different external objects only if external facts independently constrain discrimination.
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    • 3.Without external relata, distinguishing between accurate discrimination and mere stipulated labeling of internal states becomes impossible in principle.
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    • 1.Sophisticated internal representational structures can encode distinctions between external particulars through learned correlations without requiring metaphysical externalism.
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    • 2.The explanatory burden may rest on causal history and functional organization rather than current internal states alone, not requiring external support.
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    • 3.Ad hoc stipulation appears only when one mistakenly assumes internal states must be intrinsically meaningful rather than systemically relational.
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