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    Supports→Even granting Wang's intuitions, his metaphysics may not be the best explanation of them.

    When multiple competing frameworks explain the same intuitions equally well, the explanatory uniqueness of Wang's metaphysics is undermined on standard inference-to-best-explanation criteria.

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    Competing frameworks(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Different theories or systems that try to explain the same thing but use different approaches or assumptions.
    Explanatory uniqueness(the key quality being lost when other frameworks work just as well)
    When one theory is the only one that can successfully explain something, making it special or one-of-a-kind in its power to explain.
    Wang(as the subject of the philosophical critique)
    A Chinese philosopher (Wang Yangming, 1472-1529) who argued that knowledge and action are fundamentally the same thing—if you truly know what's right, you'll automatically do it.
    inference to the best explanation(Used to characterize the structure of the argument for moral non-objectivism)
    A form of reasoning in which the hypothesis that best explains the observed phenomena is inferred to be true

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    intuitions(Chudnoff's account of intuitions as the basis of a priori justification)
    Intellectual perceptions that sometimes reveal abstract reality, possessing a presentational phenomenology that can be evoked through imagination, reflection, or reasoning
    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.

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