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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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