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    It is not the case that Not all properties exemplify themselves

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.People can be honest, but honesty itself is not honest
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    • 2.There is no clear reason to hold that all properties must exemplify themselves
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Russell's paradox demonstrates that unrestricted self-predication generates formal contradictions in any coherent theory of properties.
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    • 2.The property of being non-self-exemplifying cannot coherently exemplify itself, proving self-exemplification fails as a universal principle.
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    • 3.Avoiding paradox requires distinguishing levels of predication, as Russellian type theory formally establishes.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Abstract properties like 'triangularity' lack the concrete instantiations required to satisfy their own defining predicative conditions.
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    • 2.Zalta's object theory formally distinguishes encoding from exemplifying, showing properties encode but need not exemplify their own content.
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