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    It is not the case that If sense is neither demonstrable nor reducible to physical or mental facts, Ockham's razor demands we treat it as a pseudo-entity generated by misleading grammatical surface forms.

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    • 1.Ockham's razor applies to explanatory hypotheses, not to fundamental ontological categories evident in experience.
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    • 2.Sense-making is demonstrable through structural properties of intentionality, not reducible because it's foundational.
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    • 3.Dismissing entities as 'grammatical illusions' requires independent argument—language form alone doesn't establish unreality.
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    • 1.Ontological parsimony requires eliminating posits without causal efficacy or empirical grounding in established sciences.
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    • 2.Natural language often smuggles abstract entities into existence through nominalization (e.g., 'redness' from adjective 'red').
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    • 3.No coherent mechanism explains how immaterial sense could causally interact with physical or mental phenomena.
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