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  1. “The Conceivability of Mechanism,”Philosophical Review, 77:45–72 (1968), at p. 63. The numbers assigned to propositions are mine; (1) and (2) are quoted from the article; (4) is paraphrased from it; (3) and (5) are implicit in the sense that they are required to complete the argument.

  2. Ibid., p. 46.

  3. Ibid., p. 63.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid., p. 64.

  6. Ibid., p. 63.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid., p. 62.

  9. Ibid., pp. 65–66.

  10. Ibid., p. 59.

  11. Ibid., p. 60.

  12. Ibid., p. 47.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ibid., p. 49.

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I am grateful to my colleagues at Carleton College and St. Olaf College for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Iseminger, G. Malcolm on explanations and causes. Philos Stud 20, 73–77 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02316968

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