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    Challenges→Metaphysical reductions must always be backed by apriori entailments between the base-level claim and the target claim.

    If physicalism can be true despite the explanatory gap being unbridgeable apriori, then apriori entailment is not a necessary condition for metaphysical reduction.

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    • 1.Metaphysical reduction requires only that mental properties supervene on physical properties, not that this relationship be conceptually transparent.
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    • 2.Many successful scientific reductions (e.g., water to H2O) were not a priori entailed before empirical discovery, yet count as genuine reductions.
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    • 3.The explanatory gap reflects limitations of human cognition, not metaphysical facts about whether consciousness is physically constituted.
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    • 1.If physicalism is true, the relationship between consciousness and physical states should be intelligible in principle, even if difficult in practice.
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    • 2.An unbridgeable a priori gap suggests consciousness possesses intrinsic properties that no amount of physical information could explain, undercutting reduction.
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    • 3.Successful reductions in science (chemistry to physics) permit a priori understanding once the reduction base is fully specified; consciousness lacks this.
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