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    Property dualism may be more widespread in philosophy than its lack of explicit endorsement suggests

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    • 1.Putnam's distinction between predicates and physical properties can be interpreted as a form of property dualism
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    • 2.Armstrong's recognition of second-class properties can be interpreted as a form of property dualism
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    • 1.Putnam's multiple realizability argument targets type identity theory, not substance monism, leaving his ontology compatible with token physicalism.
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    • 2.Token physicalism holds that every particular mental event is identical to a physical event, which is a monist rather than dualist position.
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    • 3.Interpreting Putnam's predicate/property distinction as dualism conflates semantic non-reducibility with ontological irreducibility.
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    • 1.Armstrong explicitly subordinates second-class properties to first-class sparse properties in a unified naturalist ontology governed by laws of nature.
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    • 2.A hierarchy within a single ontological category—physical properties—does not constitute dualism, which requires two fundamentally distinct kinds of property.
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    • 3.Attributing implicit dualism to thinkers who explicitly deny it prioritizes interpretive charity over their stated commitments, distorting the dialectic.
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    Rather than choosing between the sparse and abundant conceptions, the very promoters of this distinction have opted in different ways for a dualism of properties, according to which there are properties of both kinds. Lewis endorses abundant properties as reduced to sets of possibilia, and sparse properties either viewed as universals, and corresponding to some of the abundant properties (1983), or as themselves sets of possibilia (1986b: 60). Bealer (1982) proposes a systematic account wherein
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