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

    Non-maximal determinables like 'color' ground genuine resemblance relations among red, blue, and green that no maximal determinable captures.

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    • 1.Red, blue, and green share the property of being colors in a way that transcends any single maximal determinable (e.g., specific wavelength).
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    • 2.Maximal determinables are infinitely fine-grained; grouping by them alone cannot explain why we categorize distinct shades as genuinely similar.
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    • 3.Non-maximal determinables like 'color' capture real patterns in nature that ground objective resemblance independent of human classification.
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    • 1.Resemblance among red, blue, and green reduces to shared physical properties (wavelength ranges) without requiring non-maximal determinables as distinct grounding bases.
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    • 2.Non-maximal determinables either collapse into maximal ones or introduce vague, explanatorily idle categories that multiply entities beyond necessity.
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    • 3.Genuine resemblance requires determinate sameness, not mere non-maximal abstraction; otherwise 'similarity' becomes too permissive to be meaningful.
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