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    The physical sciences do not provide all the cognitive and conceptual tools needed for economics

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    • 1.All economic facts can be physically realized without requiring that physical science concepts exhaust the tools needed for economic inquiry
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    • 2.Economics operates at a realized level that is distinct from the physical substrate level
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    • 1.Churchland's eliminative materialism holds that folk-level conceptual frameworks are replaceable by mature neuroscience and physics.
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    • 2.Economic concepts like 'utility' and 'preference' are folk-psychological constructs that a completed physical science could systematically replace.
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    • 3.If economic concepts reduce without remainder to physical descriptions, physical science already contains all tools needed for economic explanation.
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    • 1.Physical science provides the foundational causal vocabulary from which higher-level economic regularities derive their explanatory force.
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    • 2.If economic concepts lack independent causal powers beyond physical realization, they add no irreducible cognitive tools—only descriptive shorthand.
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    Non-reductive physicalism of this sort denies that the theoretical and conceptual resources appropriate and adequate for dealing with facts at the level of the underlying substrate or realization level must be adequate as well for dealing with those at the realized level (Putnam 1975, Boyd 1980). As noted above in response to the How question, one can believe that all economic facts are physically realized without thinking that the resources of the physical sciences provide all the cognitive and
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