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    It is not the case that Determinable predicates like 'colored' are grounded in and fully reducible to determinate properties like 'red' via a priori entailment chains (Jackson 1998).

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    • 1.Determinables like 'colored' seem to have causal efficacy independent of which determinate property grounds them, suggesting irreducible ontological status.
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    • 2.The set of possible determinates may be open-ended or context-sensitive, making complete a priori specification of determinate disjuncts impossible.
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    • 3.Grue-type predicates show that conceptual reducibility via disjunction doesn't guarantee metaphysically grounded reducibility or explanatory fundamentality.
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    • 1.Being colored necessarily requires instantiating some specific color; 'colored' is conceptually analysable into a disjunction of determinate color properties.
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    • 2.A priori entailment chains (colored→red∨blue∨green...) are transparent to rational reflection and require no empirical investigation to grasp.
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    • 3.If determinables were not reducible to determinates, we'd face infinite regress: determinables would require further grounding beyond their determinates.
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