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    It is not the case that Qualities cannot exist without relations.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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