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    It is not the case that If the move to psychophysical form 'P1 & M1 & M2 → M3' genuinely yields strict laws, this presupposes that mental predicates can appear in strict laws, undermining Davidson's own anomalism thesis.

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    • 1.Mental predicates can be rigid designators of physical states without appearing 'as mental' in the strict law itself.
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    • 2.A law's being strict depends on its predicates' physical realizability, not whether they're labeled mental or physical.
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    • 3.Davidson's anomalism targets irreducible mental causation, not whether mental descriptions ever feature in law-like statements.
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    • 1.Psychophysical laws like 'P1 & M1 & M2 → M3' explicitly quantify over mental predicates as causally relevant variables.
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    • 2.Strict laws require predicates with determinate boundaries and exceptionless covering conditions that mental terms systematically lack.
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    • 3.If mental predicates genuinely appear in strict laws, anomalism—the thesis that mental events resist strict law-subsumption—collapses.
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