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    Challenges→Both the existence monist and existence nihilist must establish that the premises of the exclusion argument (or any alternative they provide) have sufficient plausibility to override considerations from intuition and perception.

    Perceptual experience underdetermines ontological structure, as the same perceptual data is compatible with both monist and pluralist interpretations of what exists.

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    • 1.Leibniz's monads and Cartesian dualism generate identical sensory predictions despite positing radically different ontologies.
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    • 2.Underdetermination is ubiquitous in science: heliocentrism and geocentrism fit observation equally until auxiliary hypotheses added.
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    • 3.Perceptual data reports relations and properties, never the ultimate constituents of reality itself—leaving structure undetermined.
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    • 1.Monism and pluralism make different predictions about identity, causation, and persistence—empirically distinguishable in principle.
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    • 2.Perception doesn't just provide data; it reveals structural features like distinctness, spatial separation, and causal independence.
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    • 3.If perceptual underdetermination were genuine, no scientific theory could ever be rationally preferred—but we clearly distinguish better from worse theories.
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