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    A powers-based account accommodates determinable inheritance — Carmelics
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    A powers-based account accommodates determinable inheritance

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    • 1.In having a determinate property with an associated set of powers, an object will thereby have the determinables associated with proper subsets of the determinate's powers
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    • 2.Properties are at least contingently individuated by their associated powers
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    • 1.Powers are individuated by their manifestations, but two distinct determinables can share identical power-subsets across all possible worlds.
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    • 2.If determinable identity cannot be distinguished by power-subsets alone, the subset relation cannot ground determinable inheritance without circularity.
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    • 1.Shoemaker's causal theory of properties requires that properties with identical causal profiles are identical, yet determinates and their determinables manifestly differ in generality.
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    • 2.A powers-based account collapses the ontological distinction between determinates and determinables by reducing both to overlapping power-sets, eliminating the asymmetric dependence relation that inheritance requires.
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    In addition to Non-conjunctive specification and Non-disjunctive specification, a powers-based account of determination neatly accommodates most standard features of determination. Causal compatibility is accommodated, since every power of a determinable instance is token-identical with a power of an associated determinate. A powers-based account also satisfies Asymmetry, Irreflexivity, and Transitivity, which are inherited as features of the proper subset relation between powers. Determinable i
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