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    It is not the case that Rodriguez-Pereyra's resemblance nominalism demonstrates that the One Over Many can be dissolved by grounding predicate application in primitive resemblance relations among particulars.

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    • 1.Resemblance itself threatens to become a universal: what makes two things resemble each other if not a shared respect or property?
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    • 2.Primitive resemblance cannot explain why some particulars resemble each other and others don't without invoking prior grounds.
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    • 3.Transitive predication chains ('a is red; red is a color') seem to require property-like relata that bare resemblance cannot provide.
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    • 1.Primitive resemblance avoids Plato's Third Man: we need not posit abstract universals if concrete particulars can directly resemble each other.
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    • 2.Resemblance nominalism respects ontological parsimony by reducing predicate truth to facts about particulars and their relations alone.
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    • 3.Many predicates ('is red', 'is spherical') naturally track resemblance classes without requiring commitment to abstract properties.
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