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    It is not the case that If scarlet determines red, then red does not determine scarlet

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    • 1.In Aristotelian genus-species hierarchies, higher genera reciprocally constrain lower species through essential definition.
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    • 2.If red necessarily excludes blue, then possessing red places determinate modal constraints on what scarlet can be, constituting a form of reverse determination.
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    • 3.Asymmetry of specificity does not entail asymmetry of all determination relations if determination encompasses modal constraint, not merely specification.
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    • 1.W.E. Johnson's original determinable framework allowed that determinables contribute irreducible qualitative content not fully captured by their determinates.
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    • 2.If red contributes content that scarlet alone does not supply, red partially determines the qualitative character of scarlet instances, challenging strict one-directional asymmetry.
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    • 1.Determination is asymmetric
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    • 2.Red cannot be both less specific and more specific than scarlet simultaneously
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