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    Filling the redness role is necessary and sufficient for a property to be redness.

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    • 1.The role description 'that property which...' is intended to express a condition that is necessary and sufficient for satisfying the concept of redness.
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    • 2.If the functional analysis is correct, then all it takes for a property to be redness is for it to fill the redness role.
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    • 1.A functional role can in principle be multiply realized by distinct intrinsic properties, making the role insufficient to fix a unique referent.
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    • 2.If both Property A and Property B independently fill the redness role across possible worlds, neither is uniquely redness, yet the claim entails each must be.
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    • 1.Kripke's modal argument establishes that natural kind terms like 'red' pick out their referents by essential intrinsic nature, not by functional description.
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    • 2.If redness is an essential property fixed by its intrinsic physical constitution, then filling a causal-functional role is neither necessary nor sufficient for being redness across all possible worlds.
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    The proposal is intended as a functional or topic neutral analysis of the concept of redness. The role description “that property which …” is intended not only to fix the referent of the concept, but also to express a condition that is necessary and sufficient for satisfying it. Thus, if the proposal is correct, then all it takes for a property to be redness is for it to fill the redness role. (McLaughlin 2003: 479)
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