If non-instrumental goods like loving relationships are good precisely because of their relational structure, the inference from 'non-instrumental' to 'intrinsic-property-based' conflates two distinct distinctions: ends vs. means, and intrinsic vs. relational properties.
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Non-instrumental goods(in ethics and value theory)
Things that are valuable for their own sake, not because they help you get something else. Loving someone is non-instrumental because the relationship itself is what matters, not what it can be used for.
inference(Nyāya epistemology)
A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
intrinsic property(Contrasted with relational property in the analysis of molecular shape)
A property possessed by an object independently of its relations to other things
relational property(Used to characterize molecular shape as dependent on interactions with other molecules or measuring devices)
A property that is constituted at least in part by interactions with other entities, rather than being an intrinsic feature of the object itself