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    Supports→The proposed escape from panpsychism — that having a thought as a part does not entail being a thinking thing — is itself absurd.

    If thoughts are intrinsically subject-directed, then a thought-part cannot be a mere inert constituent; it retains its intentional character within any whole containing it.

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    • 1.Intentionality is an intrinsic relational property of thoughts, not dependent on external composition or structural arrangement.
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    • 2.Parts of wholes retain their defining properties; a water molecule remains H2O within any compound, not losing its chemical nature.
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    • 3.If thought-parts could lose intentionality when embedded in wholes, thoughts would be mereologically unstable and indeterminate.
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    • 1.Properties can be context-dependent: a note has pitch in isolation but may lose musical meaning when placed in an incompatible score.
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    • 2.Intentionality may supervene on holistic cognitive structures rather than being intrinsic to isolated thought-parts themselves.
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    • 3.The analogy to chemical properties fails: intentionality involves relational aboutness that could dissolve in unsuitable cognitive wholes.
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