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    The theoretical and conceptual resources adequate for the substrate or realization level need not be adequate for the realized level

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    • 1.Non-reductive physicalism denies that conceptual tools appropriate for the underlying substrate must also be appropriate for the realized level
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    • 2.Different levels of description may require distinct cognitive and conceptual frameworks
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    • 1.If physical causal closure holds, then higher-level descriptions must ultimately reduce to or be grounded in substrate-level causal descriptions.
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    • 2.Conceptual frameworks that cannot in principle be linked to substrate-level explanations risk positing causally redundant entities, violating parsimony.
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    • 3.Jaegwon Kim's exclusion argument demonstrates that irreducibly distinct higher-level frameworks generate systematic overdetermination problems that undermine their explanatory legitimacy.
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    • 1.The historical success of inter-theoretic reductions in science—thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, optics to electromagnetism—shows substrate-level resources regularly prove adequate for realized-level phenomena.
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    • 2.Patricia Churchland and eliminative materialists argue that positing irreducibly distinct conceptual levels often reflects folk-psychological bias rather than genuine ontological stratification.
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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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