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Nancy Murphy, one of the leading contemporary proponents of non-reductive physicalism, notes that her and other NRPs deny the existence of non-material entities, but do not deny the existence of:

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The answer is "the soul": Nancy Murphy notes that her and other NRPs deny the existence of non-material entities, but do not deny the existence of the soul.

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Although Nancy Murphy and other non-reductive physicalists (NRPs) believe that non-physical or non-material entities do not exist, they are of the view that human beings possess a soul: human beings not only have a physical body, but possess a soul which does not exist separately from the body; hence she and other NRPs do not believe that any human entity can be separated from its soul and be reduced to only a physical body or component.

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