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    Supports→The Langton and Lewis account fails as an account of qualitative identity interior properties

    Yablo's independence criterion requires that intrinsic properties be ones whose instantiation is independent of what accompanies the object, but mathematical existence is not accompaniment-dependent.

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    Key Terms

    Accompaniment-dependent(describes what intrinsic properties should NOT be)
    Relying on or being affected by other things that exist alongside or with an object.
    Mathematical existence(in philosophy of mathematics)
    Whether mathematical objects (like numbers or sets) actually exist as real things or are just useful ideas we invented to solve problems.
    Yablo(the philosopher being referenced)
    Stephen Yablo is a contemporary American philosopher who works on problems in metaphysics and logic, particularly about how properties and objects relate to each other.
    independence criterion(Leibniz's criteria for genuine created substances)
    A standard for created substance according to which, if an entity is composed of parts, the parts are more fundamentally real than the wholes they compose.

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    instantiation(Lowe's trope-involving pluralism)
    The formal relation between a mode and the universal attribute the mode instantiates; it is part of a mode's essence that it instantiates the specific attribute it does
    intrinsic properties(Contrasted with structural properties revealed by physics)
    Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.

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