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    Determinate similarity and comparability among lengths is explained by Armstrong's partial identity account.

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    • 1.On Armstrong's account, resemblance between determinate universals is constituted by partial identity.
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    • 2.Different determinate lengths share some but not all unit length universals.
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    • 3.Sharing some but not all unit length universals constitutes partial identity, which grounds similarity and comparability.
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    • 1.Armstrong's partial identity requires that universals have genuine mereological parts, but universals are traditionally simple, non-composite entities.
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    • 2.If unit length universals are themselves complex aggregates, an infinite regress threatens: each unit must be explained by sub-units sharing partial identity.
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    • 3.A regress of partial identities fails to ground similarity without a primitive notion of resemblance, undermining the account's explanatory advantage over resemblance nominalism.
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    • 1.Bigelow and Pargetter argue that quantities are better explained by relations to real numbers than by mereological overlap among universals.
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    • 2.On a relational account, comparative similarity among lengths is grounded in the ordered structure of real numbers, not partial identity of universals.
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    • 3.Armstrong's partial identity account cannot recover the full dense ordering of lengths without presupposing the real number structure it purports to explain.
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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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