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    The asymmetric dependence of determinates on their determinable is explained by Armstrong's partial identity account.

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    • 1.On Armstrong's account, determinate lengths are constituted by specific sums of unit length universals.
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    • 2.Instantiating a specific sum of unit lengths entails instantiating the determinable property of length.
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    • 3.Instantiating length does not entail any particular sum of unit lengths.
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    • 1.Armstrong's account presupposes a prior metric unit, but the choice of unit is conventional, not ontologically grounded in the universal itself.
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    • 2.If the decomposition into unit-length sums is conventional, then the partial identity relation is not a real ontological relation but a representational artifact.
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    • 3.A merely representational artifact cannot ground genuine asymmetric metaphysical dependence between properties.
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    • 1.Determinable properties like 'colored' apply to phenomenal qualia whose intrinsic character cannot be decomposed into sums of simpler universals (Jackson 1982, Levine 1983).
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    • 2.If even one determinable-determinate pair resists the partial identity analysis, the account fails as a general explanation of asymmetric dependence.
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    • 3.Armstrong's account thus conflates a structural feature of quantitative properties with a universal account of the determinate-determinable relation.
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    One concern with anti-realist accounts has to do with the source of classification of determinates under a determinable term or concept. As above, this is usually taken to involve inexact resemblance, but if inexact resemblance is primitive, then objections of the sort leveled against resemblance nominalist treatments of inexact resemblance may arise, mutatis mutandis (see Fales [1990: 117–20] for discussion, and Rodriguez-Pereyra [2002] for a recent response). An alternative means of classifica
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