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An instance of similarity status is the collective ascription of a similarity relationship between any two objects by a community. The substance of the similarity status is the communal recognition of the ascribed similarity relation between the two entities in question.

Instances of similarity status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance and behaviour indicated by the kind of similarity believed to hold between the two referenced entities, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act initiating this status.

Instances of similarity status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act (e.g., scholarship) or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of similarity status may end either though a formal process (e.g., disproof or refutation), or may simply fade out, be eliminated by fiat or for unknown reasons.  

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