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    Supports→Only maximal determinables exist; non-maximal determinables do not exist.

    Non-maximal determinables lack such a comparability gap distinguishing them from other same-level determinates.

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    Johansson (2000, 2004) endorses a constitutive account of determinables—more precisely, of ‘maximal’ determinables (such as color, shape, and smell) located at the top of a determination hierarchy—taking Determinate similarity and Determinate gradability as its starting point. It is, he says, characteristic of determinables and determinates that “two different determinates of the same determinable can always be continuously connected” (2000: 108), in a way providing the basis for the gradeable r

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