Second, materialist physicalism's acceptance
of causal determinism, along with the correlative acceptance
of the idea that «science» provides precise predictive laws, 5 excludes the idea that a partially self - determining mind could affect the physical course
of nature, It is these two metaphysically - based exclusions that, as we have seen,
prevent materialist physicalism from doing justice to our inescapable presuppositions about the
reality and efficacy
of our mental life.
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