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    Challenges→The descriptive view is refuted if there are metaphysically possible instances of kind C that do not possess the property complex D.

    If (K) is necessary, then no metaphysically possible instance of C can lack D.

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    Since D is constitutive of the meaning of ‘C’, (K) should be analytic and so necessary. The descriptive view would thus be refuted either by (i) metaphysically possible instances of the kind C that do not possess the property complex D or by (ii) metaphysically possible items that do possess the property complex D without being instances of C.

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