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    Challenges→A cosmological perspective must supplement, but cannot replace, the personalist framework for understanding the human being.

    If subjectivity itself is adequately explained as a determinate expression of universal natura naturans, the personalist framework is methodologically redundant rather than indispensable.

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    • 1.Universal natura naturans (nature naturing) can causally generate all phenomena including consciousness through deterministic natural laws.
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    • 2.Personalism adds explanatory layers (agency, first-person perspective) that become superfluous if physicalism adequately accounts for subjectivity.
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    • 3.Methodological parsimony favors monistic frameworks over dual ontologies when both predict identical observable outcomes.
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    • 1.Subjective first-person experience (qualia, intentionality) resists complete reduction to third-person natura naturans descriptions by definition.
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    • 2.Personalism explains irreducible features like moral agency and normative authority that natura naturans alone cannot ground or justify.
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    • 3.Adequacy of explanation depends on one's explanatory goals; personalism remains indispensable for ethical, existential, and phenomenological inquiry.
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    Key Terms

    Indispensable(describes which mathematical objects should exist according to Quine and Putnam)
    So necessary and important that you cannot do without it; essential.
    Subjectivity(Grounds the person's authorship of actions and resistance to purely objective definition)
    The property by which the person acts from within his own core rather than being solely determined by external forces
    determinate expression(as used in metaphysics)
    A specific, clearly defined way that something shows itself or manifests; a particular instance rather than something vague or general.
    methodologically redundant(as used in philosophy of method)
    Unnecessary from the standpoint of how we investigate and explain things; you don't need this approach to properly study or understand the subject.
    natura naturans(as Spinoza's concept of how reality works)
    A Latin phrase meaning 'nature naturing'—the active, creative force of nature itself that generates and sustains everything.
    personalism(Maritain's self-described position)
    A philosophical position emphasising the value of the human person, understood as a via media between individualism and socialism.
    universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
    A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.

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