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    It is not the case that Levin's reply to McGinn's phenomenological problem relies on scrutinizing the assumptions that underpin McGinn's criticism

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    • 1.McGinn's phenomenological argument does not depend on Revelation but on the intrinsic qualitative character of color experience itself.
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    • 2.Scrutinizing assumptions about Revelation leaves intact the core intuition that dispositional properties cannot fully capture phenomenal redness.
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    • 1.Levin's strategy of rejecting Revelation is itself controversial, as Johnston and others argue Revelation captures a genuine datum about color phenomenology.
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    • 2.A reply that works only by denying a widely-held phenomenological principle fails to engage dispositionalism's opponents on their own terms.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.McGinn's argument against dispositionalism rests on specific assumptions
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    • 2.The doctrine of Revelation is relevant to evaluating those assumptions
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