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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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