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    It is not the case that The regress argument thus collapses if psychology is a failed proto-science rather than an irreducible special science.

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    • 1.Psychology successfully predicts behavior and generates testable theories independent of neurobiology, meeting core criteria for special science status.
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    • 2.Calling psychology 'failed' begs the question—it assumes reducibility rather than arguing that autonomous psychological laws are impossible.
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    • 3.Multiple realizability of mental states in different physical substrates shows psychology cannot collapse into neurobiology without explanatory loss.
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    • 1.Psychology's explanatory gaps (consciousness, intentionality) suggest it lacks fundamental principles needed for a genuine special science.
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    • 2.If psychology reduces to neurobiology, the regress of mental explanations terminates at physical laws, avoiding infinite justification.
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    • 3.Proto-sciences like alchemy failed because they posited irreducible entities; psychology's mental causes may face the same fatal flaw.
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