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    Armstrong's partial identity account of determinate resem... — Carmelics
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    Armstrong's partial identity account of determinate resemblance cannot handle the full range of cases of determination.

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    • 1.Armstrong's partial identity account requires determinate properties to share structural components, but determinables like shape lack decomposable unit universals.
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    • 2.Circularity is triangular and squareness are both shapes, yet share no partial identity constituent that could ground their mutual subordination to shape.
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    • 3.Without a common structural part, Armstrong's model cannot explain why both count as determinate shapes rather than as unrelated property families.
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    • 1.Determinates of phenomenal color like specific hues involve incompatibility relations—no region can be both pure red and pure blue—that partial identity cannot explain.
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    • 2.If red and blue shared identity constituents sufficient to explain their both being colors, those shared parts would not preclude co-instantiation, yet co-instantiation is necessarily excluded.
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    • 3.W.E. Johnson's original determinable-determinate distinction was precisely motivated by such necessary incompatibilities, which identity-based mereology systematically fails to capture.
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    • 1.Armstrong's account explains determinate resemblance via partial identity constituted by shared unit length universals.
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    • 2.There exist cases of determination that cannot be accommodated by the partial identity model.
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    One concern with anti-realist accounts has to do with the source of classification of determinates under a determinable term or concept. As above, this is usually taken to involve inexact resemblance, but if inexact resemblance is primitive, then objections of the sort leveled against resemblance nominalist treatments of inexact resemblance may arise, mutatis mutandis (see Fales [1990: 117–20] for discussion, and Rodriguez-Pereyra [2002] for a recent response). An alternative means of classifica
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