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    Challenges→Supervenience physicalism avoids the problem that token physicalism faces with social or legal objects.

    Two possible worlds could be micro-physically identical yet differ in which legal facts obtain if legal facts depend on intentional attitudes not fully fixed by local physical states.

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    Depend on(metaphysics)
    In philosophy, when something depends on another thing, it means the first thing exists or is true only because of the second thing; one requires the other to exist.
    Intentional attitudes(philosophy of mind)
    Mental states that are *about* something—like beliefs, desires, and intentions that point toward objects or goals outside your mind.
    Legal facts(philosophy of law)
    Objective truths about law and legal systems—like whether a contract is valid or a person has certain rights—that some philosophers think are real facts about the world.
    Local physical states(philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    The complete physical facts about a particular location or object at a specific moment, including all the atoms and forces present there.
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    (philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    Having exactly the same physical properties at the smallest level—same atoms, same particles, same physical arrangement—with no physical differences whatsoever.
    possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
    Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized

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