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    It is not the case that Type physicalism is not a necessary condition for physicalism

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    • 1.Physicalism requires that all facts supervene on physical facts, and supervenience without type identity collapses into an unexplained brute correlation.
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    • 2.Jaegwon Kim's causal exclusion argument shows that non-identical higher-level properties lack genuine causal efficacy, making token physicalism explanatorily vacuous.
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    • 3.A physicalism that cannot account for the causal relevance of mental and institutional properties fails as a substantive metaphysical thesis, not merely a terminological one.
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    • 1.The Seventh Circuit example conflates ontological reduction with conceptual or social irreducibility; legal powers may still be realized by physical configurations of brains and institutions.
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    • 2.David Armstrong and David Lewis's functionalist realism holds that higher-order properties are type-identical to the physical realizer-types within a given world, preserving type physicalism locally.
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    • 3.If type identity is world-relative rather than necessary across all possible worlds, the counterexamples from social or institutional properties dissolve without abandoning type physicalism.
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    • 1.If type physicalism were necessary for physicalism, then every property an entity has must be identical with some physical property
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    • 2.The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has properties (e.g., having a legal power over lower courts) that are unlikely to be identical with any physical property
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    • 3.Physicalism might still be true even if type physicalism fails for such properties
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