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    Challenges→A violation of Outcome Independence (OI) implies relational holism

    Healey distinguishes property holism from relational holism, and the inference from non-particularism to relational holism illicitly collapses this distinction.

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    • 1.Property holism concerns how properties depend on wholes; relational holism concerns how relations structure reality fundamentally differently.
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    • 2.Non-particularism (denying fundamental particulars) does not logically entail that all wholes are relationally constituted rather than property-dependent.
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    • 3.Conflating these distinctions obscures whether holism is about ontological dependence or about the priority of relational structure.
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    • 1.Non-particularism entails denying primitive individual substances, which naturally leads to relational rather than property-based holist ontologies.
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    • 2.The distinction between property and relational holism may be less substantive than claimed—both deny basic atomistic metaphysics similarly.
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    • 3.Healey's own framework may not actually sustain the distinction without introducing covert particularism elsewhere in the system.
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