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    Challenges→Armstrong's partial identity account of determinate resemblance cannot handle the full range of cases of determination.

    There exist cases of determination that cannot be accommodated by the partial identity model.

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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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