Requiring reduction to 'support materialist claims' conflates the epistemic project of theory unification with the metaphysical project of ontological elimination, which Nagel's model never intended to serve.

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Epistemic: "Epistemic" relates to knowledge—how we know things, what counts as knowledge, and whether we can trust what we believe to be true. It comes from the Greek word for knowledge and is used to describe questions about the reliability and validity of our beliefs and understanding. For example, "epistemic humility" means acknowledging the limits of what you can actually know for certain.
Nagel(as a key philosopher cited in this theory): Thomas Nagel is a famous American philosopher known for thinking deeply about consciousness, death, and what makes life meaningful.
Ontological elimination(used in metaphysics): Removing something from our list of things that actually exist in reality—saying it's not real, just an appearance or useful fiction.
Reduction/Reductionism(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of science): The idea that a complex thing can be fully explained by breaking it down into simpler parts or showing it's really just those simpler things in disguise.

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