If property attribution depends on the chosen decomposition rather than intrinsic structure, the 'failure of property composition' reflects interpretive underdetermination, not genuine holism.

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Holism(Mid-twentieth-century individualism/holism debates): A position in the individualism/holism debates that treats social entities as irreducible to individualistic entities, without denying the existence of the non-social
Interpretive underdetermination(the philosophical problem at issue): A situation where the same scientific evidence or data can be explained by multiple different theories, so the evidence alone doesn't tell you which explanation is correct.
Property attribution(in metaphysics and logic): The act of assigning or claiming that something has a particular quality or characteristic.
decomposition(Contrasted along functional versus structural lines): The analysis of a system into parts, which is not univocal and can generate competing and complementary sets of part representations depending on the principles utilized.

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