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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on whi... — Carmelics
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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

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    • 1.Fundamental properties, per Lewis's Humean supervenience, must be freely recombinable across possible worlds without modal remainder.
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    • 2.Vector properties essentially encode directional relations to external spatial frameworks, making their instantiation modally dependent on relational facts.
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    • 3.Any property whose complete characterization requires reference to extrinsic relata cannot satisfy the free recombinability criterion for fundamentality.
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    • 1.Earman's symmetry arguments show that vector magnitudes are only well-defined relative to coordinate systems, which are extrinsic representational structures.
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    • 2.A property that is only determinate relative to an extrinsic representational structure cannot be ontologically fundamental, since fundamentalia must be intrinsically determinate.
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    • 3.Therefore every conception that preserves the necessarily extrinsic character of vectors simultaneously disqualifies them from serving as fundamental properties.
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    • Alternative conceptions of vector properties on which they cannot be intrinsic have not been shown to also permit vector properties to be fundamental
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    Notable Defenders

    Dan MarshallcontemporaryMarshall 2009
    Dan MarshallcontemporaryMarshall and Parsons 2001
    David LewiscontemporaryLewis 1983a
    David LewiscontemporaryLewis 1986: 61
    David Lewiscontemporary
    David LewiscontemporaryLangton and Lewis (1998); Lewis (1983a)
    J. Michael DunncontemporaryDunn (1990)
    Jaegwon KimcontemporaryKim 1982
    Josh ParsonscontemporaryParsons 2001
    Josh ParsonscontemporaryMarshall and Parsons 2001
    Lloyd HumberstonecontemporaryHumberstone 1996
    M. EddoncontemporaryEddon 2011
    M. EddoncontemporaryEddon (2011)
    MarshallcontemporaryMarshall (2015, 2016a)
    Peter VallentynecontemporaryVallentyne (1997)
    Peter Vallentynecontemporaryp. 211
    Rae Langtoncontemporary
    Rae Langtoncontemporary
    Rae LangtoncontemporaryLangton and Lewis (1998)
    Robert FrancescotticontemporaryFrancescotti (2014)
    Robert FrancescotticontemporaryFrancescotti 1999
    Theodore SidercontemporarySider 1996
    Theodore SidercontemporarySider 1993
    Theodore SidercontemporarySider (1993a)
    G. E. MooremodernMoore (1922)
    G.E. MooremodernMoore 1922

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    The first assumption that all perfectly natural properties are intrinsic has been rejected by Weatherson (2006). (See also Yablo 1999 who holds that, even if every perfectly natural property is intrinsic, this fact is at best a lucky accident, and that this renders Lewis’s account unsuccessful as a philosophical account of intrinsicality.) Weatherson claims that it is metaphysically possible for the instantiated perfectly natural properties to be vector properties. He then argues that, since vec
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