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    It is not the case that Sea water being pure for fish and foul for humans demonstrates context-dependence of properties, not ontological unity of purity and foulness as such.

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    • 1.Purity and foulness describe objective chemical composition; subjective effects don't undermine their ontological status.
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    • 2.Context-dependence of application doesn't prove properties lack unified essence—water's chemistry remains constant.
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    • 3.Distinguishing harmful from harmless is logically prior to evaluating purity; context explains use, not existence.
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    • 1.Properties like purity have no intrinsic nature independent of relational contexts and observer interests.
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    • 2.The same physical substance (salt water) produces opposite evaluative properties in different biological systems.
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    • 3.Context-dependence best explains why we lack a unified account of purity across all domains of application.
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