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Debate explores Purity and proposes a Neutrality Principle to clarify fundamental truths' constituents.
I offer a new position in debates about the Purity Principle, roughly, whether the fundamental truths/facts may have nonfundamental constituents. Purity is intuitively compelling and plays an important role in many debates. Nevertheless, there are also reasons to doubt Purity. In this paper I attempt to retain the grain of truth in the Purity Principle by proposing a different, less-demanding Neutrality Principle, roughly, that fundamental truths or facts turn only their fundamental constituents.
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