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    Supports→Anomalous Monism does not inherit the problem of justifying specific identifications between mental and physical events

    Physical descriptions are not specifiable in precise and uniquely identifying spatial and temporal terms

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    In any case, Anomalous Monism thus does not inherit the problem of how to justify specific identifications between mental and physical events, because the claim that there is a physical description for each mental event is established purely a priori. And the physical descriptions are not (indeed, cannot be) specifiable in precise and uniquely identifying spatial and temporal terms. As we are about to see (5.2), each of these points is overlooked by many of Davidson’s critics. That the latter

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