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    It is not the case that An object has a property because a predicate denotes it, not the other way around

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    • 1.Objects possess intrinsic physical properties (wavelength reflectance, molecular structure) that exist independently of any linguistic system.
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    • 2.Predicates like 'gray' were coined precisely because objects already exhibited mind-independent perceptual features that grouped them naturally.
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    • 3.If predicates constituted properties rather than tracking them, successful cross-linguistic reference to the same property would be inexplicable.
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    • 1.Kripke and Putnam's causal-historical semantics establishes that natural kind terms rigidly designate properties fixed by the world, not by descriptive conventions.
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    • 2.The claim inverts the correct semantic direction: 'gray' denotes the property because competent speakers were causally linked to gray things, not the reverse.
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    • 1.The properties an object has depend on what predicates apply to it
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    • 2.Therefore 'gray' does not denote an object because the object has the property of being gray; rather, the object has that property because 'gray' denotes it
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