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    It is not the case that Goodman's condition of finite differentiation can potentially be met by digital image technology through subphenomenal color discrimination.

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    • 1.Goodman's finite differentiation requires that differences between characters be perceivable in principle, not merely measurable by instruments.
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    • 2.Subphenomenal color distinctions, by definition inaccessible to perceptual discrimination, cannot satisfy a condition whose function is to ground notational identity in perceptual practice.
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    • 3.A scheme built on distinctions no human perceiver can make fails Goodman's purpose: ensuring that syntactic compliance can be determined from the object itself.
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    • 1.Truecolor sampling produces continuous gradients across device-dependent color spaces, meaning the 'same' RGB triplet renders different objective colors on different displays.
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    • 2.If the physical instantiation of a digital character varies with output hardware, the character-token relation lacks the stability Goodman's allographic identity requires.
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    • 3.Finite differentiation cannot be met at the level of encoding alone when the scheme's compliance classes shift depending on the rendering environment.
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    • 1.Current technologies for sampling and instantiating light intensities group objective colors well below the level of phenomenal discrimination.
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    • 2.In the Truecolor system, digital sampling technology carves up objective color space into a disjoint series of wavelength intensities yielding over 16 million objective colors.
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    • 3.The light intensity groupings expressed as RGB triplets in Truecolor can be narrower than the objective color types that contribute to the resultant image scheme.
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