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    Challenges→Bodies are well-founded phenomena rather than mere incoherent dreams or fictions.

    If positing real simple substances beneath phenomena is explanatorily idle, Occam's razor warrants eliminating them, leaving bodies as coherent but ungrounded perceptual regularities.

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    Explanatorily idle(in philosophy)
    Unable to actually explain or account for something; basically doing no real work in solving a problem.
    Occam's Razor(Philosophy of science)
    A principle favoring more ontologically parsimonious theories over less parsimonious ones.
    Ungrounded(as the nature of the Liar sentence)
    Sentences that cannot be proven true or false by appealing to any facts or logical chain—they just refer back to themselves without any solid foundation.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    perceptual regularities

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    (in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Predictable patterns in what we observe and experience—things that happen the same way repeatedly when we perceive them.
    phenomena(Distinguished from data in the context of scientific explanation)
    The targets of scientific learning, inferred from data rather than identical to data itself
    positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
    The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
    simple substances(Leibnizian metaphysics)
    Immaterial mind-like entities (monads) that exist in infinity and provide ontological grounding for bodies

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