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    Supports→Expressing dependence purely at the token level cannot account for why a particular redness instance depends on a substance *as a bearer*, rather than on its specific haecceity.

    If redness depended on haecceity rather than substance-qua-bearer, two qualitatively identical substances would support different red tokens—contradicting empirical indiscernibility.

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    Empirical indiscernibility(epistemology/metaphysics)
    The idea that if two things are completely identical in every way you could observe or measure, there's no practical way to tell them apart.
    Substance-qua-bearer(metaphysics)
    A fancy way of saying 'substance *in its role as* the thing that holds or carries properties'—like how a cup is the 'bearer' of the color red.
    haecceity(Metaphysics of modality and personal identity)
    The property of being that very individual; for individual a, the haecceity is the property of being a
    qualitatively identical(Both twins are qualitatively identical to Adam, making it arbitrary to identify one twin as Adam and not the other.)
    Having the same properties or characteristics, without necessarily being numerically the same individual.

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    substance(Spinoza's metaphysics; criteria include (i) necessity and (ii) self-subsistence)
    The fundamental existent that is wholly necessary and self-subsistent, not depending on anything else for its existence
    token(Philosophy of language; type-token distinction)
    An actual physical thing located at a specific place in spacetime; a concrete instantiation such as a pile of ink on a page, a sound wave, or a collection of pixels on a computer screen

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