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    A generic/determinable universal cannot be identified with any specific/determinate universal

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    • 1.If a generic type G has only a proper subset of the causal relations of a specific type S, then G and S differ in at least one property
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    • 2.By the principle of the indiscernibility of identicals, entities that differ in any property cannot be identical
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    • 3.On the subset-of-causal-relations account, G has only a proper subset of the causal relations of S
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    • 1.Determinable predicates like 'colored' are grounded in and fully reducible to determinate properties like 'red' via a priori entailment chains (Jackson 1998).
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    • 2.If determinables are just ways of picking out determinates under incomplete description, 'colored' and 'red' co-refer in contexts where redness is the only instantiated color.
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    • 3.When co-reference holds under all possible completions, the indiscernibility argument fails to establish non-identity—it instead shows only incomplete specification.
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    • 1.Armstrong's sparse universals ontology holds that only fully determinate properties are genuine universals; determinables are merely nominalistically useful predicates with no distinct ontological status.
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    • 2.If determinables lack independent ontological standing, the causal-relations asymmetry cited in P3 reflects epistemic incompleteness, not a real difference in entities.
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    • 3.A difference in causal descriptions under incomplete information cannot satisfy the Leibnizian criterion for non-identity, since that criterion requires differing in a genuine property, not a descriptivist shadow.
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    A subset-of-causal-relations account of generic/determinable universals promisingly accommodates many features of determination, for reasons similar to those attaching to powers-based accounts, below. It also ensures the metaphysical irreducibility of a generic/determinable type to any specific/determinate type, by the principle of the indiscernibility of identicals (if \(G\) has only a proper subset of causal relations of \(S\), \(G\) cannot be identified with \(S\)); and if this proper subset
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