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en-wikipedia-org-487		Physicalism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5872	719	58	Physicalists have traditionally opted for a "theory-based" characterization of the physical either in terms of current physics,[10] or a future (ideal) physics.[11] These two theory-based conceptions of the physical represent both horns of Hempel's dilemma[12] (named after the late philosopher of science and logical empiricist Carl Gustav Hempel): an argument against theory-based understandings of the physical. One response to this problem is to abandon statement 2 in favour of the alternative possibility mentioned earlier in which supervenience-based formulations of physicalism are restricted to what David Chalmers (1996) calls "positive properties". even when they are prepared to admit with Eddington that physical stuff has, in itself, 'a nature capable of manifesting itself as mental activity', i.e. as experience or consciousness".[51] Because experiential phenomena allegedly cannot be emergent from wholly non-experiential phenomena, philosophers are driven to substance dualism, property dualism, eliminative materialism and "all other crazy attempts at wholesale mental-to-non-mental reduction".[51]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-487.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-487.txt