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    It is not the case that No property can determine itself

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    • 1.Reflexive determination is coherent: identity itself constitutes a degenerate case of the determination relation where specificity is maximally saturated.
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    • 2.If a property P fully fixes all its own determinate features with no remainder, then P determines P in the limiting case of the relation.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Armstrong's immanent realism treats universals as self-instantiating their own structural role, suggesting properties can stand in reflexive relations to themselves.
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    • 2.The supporting argument illicitly conflates 'more specific than' with 'specific relative to', but determination requires only the latter, which allows the reflexive case.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Determination requires increased specificity
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    • 2.No property can be more specific than itself
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