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

    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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    Goodman(the statement opens with his name)
    Nelson Goodman was a 20th-century philosopher who created a famous puzzle about how we learn from experience and make predictions based on patterns we've observed.
    characters(Classical semantic theory; the semantic value associated with an expression at the level of character.)
    Functions from contexts to contents.
    finite differentiation(Goodman's theory of image schemes; used to assess whether digital images qualify as digital in a notational sense)
    Goodman's condition requiring that an image scheme be divided into a finite number of distinct, non-overlapping classes or types.
    in principle(as used in philosophical reasoning)
    Theoretically or according to the basic rules or logic, even if it might not work out in practice.

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