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    It is not the case that Rae Langton and others argue that intrinsic properties must be those a thing retains in isolation, yet many candidates for non-instrumental good (friendship, knowledge) are irreducibly relational.

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    • 1.A person can retain dispositional capacity for friendship in isolation; the relational instance depends on others, not the intrinsic potential.
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    • 2.Knowledge may reduce to intrinsic cognitive states; relationality describes how knowledge arises, not what makes it good or valuable.
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    • 3.Langton's isolation criterion targets metaphysical intrinsicness; relational goods might be intrinsically valuable without being intrinsic properties.
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    • 1.Friendship ceases to exist if one friend is removed; thus it cannot be an intrinsic property by Langton's isolation criterion.
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    • 2.Knowledge requires a knower and known object; it is constitutively relational, not reducible to isolated individual properties.
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    • 3.If goods must be intrinsic to avoid instrumental dependency, we must revise what counts as intrinsic, not deny relational goods exist.
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