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    It is not the case that If our spatial and causal representations systematically enable successful prediction and intervention in the world, inference to their mind-independent reality is more parsimonious than positing an unknowable thing-in-itself.

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    • 1.Predictive utility and truth are distinct: false models predict well (geocentrism, phlogiston). Success doesn't entail mind-independent reality.
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    • 2.The argument assumes representational structure mirrors external structure, but this isometry itself requires justification beyond predictive success.
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    • 3.Parsimony favors what entities we posit, not what exists; realism adds the assumption that mind-independent reality exists, violating its own principle.
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    • 1.Predictive success across diverse domains and agents suggests representations track mind-independent structures rather than subjective constructs.
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    • 2.Positing unknowable things-in-themselves multiplies explanatory entities without improving predictive power, violating parsimony principles.
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    • 3.Successful interventions (engineering, medicine) rely on spatial-causal models; their reliability indicates genuine correspondence to reality.
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