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    Finite differentiation is defeated in digital images because display pixels can be lit at intensities between and indiscriminable from adjacent discriminable intensities.

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    • 1.Goodman's finite differentiation requires that every pair of characters be such that it is not, in principle, impossible to determine that a mark belongs to one rather than the other.
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    • 2.Digital display systems possess continuous voltage gradients allowing pixel intensities to fall at positions unassignable to any discrete notational character.
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    • 3.When a mark cannot be definitively assigned to one character rather than another, the syntactic disjointness required for a notational scheme is violated.
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    • 1.Peacocke's theory of perceptual content holds that indiscriminability is not merely epistemic but constitutive of the identity conditions of perceptual types.
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    • 2.If two pixel intensities are perceptually indiscriminable yet numerically distinct, no finite partition of the intensity spectrum can yield determinate character-membership.
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    • 2.Display pixels can be lit at intensities indiscriminable from adjacent discriminable intensities.
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    Pixellation alone, no matter the resolution, cannot account for images displayed on LCD screens belonging to a digital scheme; digital images qua images thus remain stubbornly analog. But perhaps Goodman’s condition of finite differentiation can still be met with a closer analysis of digital image technology. Current technologies for sampling and instantiating light intensities group objective colors well below the level of phenomenal discrimination. For example, in the standard “Truecolor” syst
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