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    It is not the case that Clifton (1995) demonstrated that in certain modal interpretations, possessed properties of composite systems are fully determined by the properties of components under the spectral decomposition rule.

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    • 1.Entangled systems exhibit correlations that cannot be decomposed into independent component properties, challenging reductionist determination claims.
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    • 2.Spectral decomposition is basis-dependent; the same composite system yields different 'determined' properties under different basis choices, indicating underdetermination.
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    • 3.Contextuality results suggest no global assignment of properties respects all spectral structures simultaneously, undermining universal determinacy claims.
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    • 1.Spectral decomposition provides a mathematically rigorous framework for reducing composite properties to component properties in quantum systems.
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    • 2.Modal interpretations require determinate possessed properties; Clifton's result shows these can be consistently assigned via spectral methods.
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    • 3.This approach avoids arbitrariness in property assignment by grounding composite facts in the eigenstructure of component observables.
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