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    It is not the case that Only maximal determinables exist; non-maximal determinables do not exist.

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    • 1.Non-maximal determinables like 'color' ground genuine resemblance relations among red, blue, and green that no maximal determinable captures.
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    • 2.If resemblance relations require an ontological ground, non-maximal determinables must exist as real universals to explain cross-species color similarity.
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    • 3.Denying the reality of non-maximal determinables leaves color-resemblance between scarlet and crimson explanatorily ungrounded relative to shape-resemblance.
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    • 1.Armstrong's sparse theory of universals permits only those universals that do genuine causal-explanatory work, and non-maximal determinables like 'mass' figure irreducibly in Newton's second law.
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    • 2.If a determinable appears essentially and irreducibly in well-confirmed scientific laws, Quinean ontological commitment obliges us to accept it as real.
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    • 1.A determinable is posited if and only if there is a comparability gap between its determinates and those of other determinables.
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    • 2.Non-maximal determinables lack such a comparability gap distinguishing them from other same-level determinates.
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