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    Qualities cannot exist without relations. — Carmelics
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    Qualities cannot exist without relations.

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    • 1.To be a quality, a thing must differ from other qualities.
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    • 2.Differing from other qualities requires being distinct from them.
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    • 3.Distinctness requires plurality.
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    • 1.A quality can be self-identical and intrinsically determinate without reference to any other quality.
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    • 2.Intrinsic determinacy grounds distinctness logically prior to any relational comparison.
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    • 3.If distinctness follows from intrinsic natures rather than producing them, plurality presupposes qualities rather than constituting them.
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    • 1.In Husserl's eidetic phenomenology, a quale like 'pure red' is grasped in direct intuition as a fully constituted essence independently of relational contrast.
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    • 2.If a quality can be phenomenologically given in isolation, its being does not depend on relations even if relations can subsequently be predicated of it.
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    A quality can be self-identical and intrinsically determinate without reference ...Differing from other qualities requires being distinct from them.Distinctness requires plurality.If a quality can be phenomenologically given in isolation, its being does not de...
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    If distinctness follows from intrinsic natures rather than producing them, plura...In Husserl's eidetic phenomenology, a quale like 'pure red' is grasped in direct...Intrinsic determinacy grounds distinctness logically prior to any relational com...Plurality requires relations.To be a quality, a thing must differ from other qualities.

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    Plurality requires relations.87%All relations, not just independent ones, are incapable of relating85%External relations cannot truly relate and are not genuine relations83%Resemblance is a relation.81%

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    He starts with pointing out that “[q]ualities are nothing without relations” (ibid.). This is so because in order to be qualities they have to differ from other qualities and hence have to be distinct. However, without relations they could not be distinct. But distinctiveness presupposes plurality and plurality relations.
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