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    Challenges→Two levels of discourse A and B are more-than-causally connected only if one entails the other a priori

    If phenomenal consciousness is more-than-causally connected to physical states (as property dualists and many physicalists hold), yet no a priori entailment holds, the biconditional fails.

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    Biconditional(in formal logic)
    A logical statement that says two things are true if and only if each other is true; it's a two-way relationship (like saying 'you can vote if and only if you're 18').
    a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    more-than-causally connected(describing the relationship between consciousness and physical states)
    Related in a way that goes beyond just one thing affecting another; the things are linked in a deeper or stricter way than simple cause-and-effect.
    phenomenal consciousness

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    (Contrasted with functional or physical properties in anti-physicalist arguments)
    The subjective, felt quality of experience that zombies are stipulated to lack despite physical identity with conscious humans
    physicalism(The target position that the knowledge argument is designed to refute)
    The thesis that physical theory can in principle account for everything there is to know about the world
    property dualism(Distinguished from substance dualism; the zombie argument is said to establish only property dualism)
    The view that conscious states are distinct properties from physical states, without necessarily positing a separately existing non-physical substance

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