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    Challenges→Quiddities can be physically efficacious even if a single type of physical disposition might have been grounded by a distinct quiddity from the quiddity that actually grounds it

    Allowing quiddities to contingently ground dispositions collapses into epiphenomenalism about quiddities, since the disposition, not the quiddity, does all explanatory causal work.

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    Contingently ground(metaphysics)
    To serve as a foundation or explanation for something, but only in a way that could have been otherwise (not necessarily or always).
    Explanatory causal work(metaphysics/causation)
    The job of actually causing or explaining why something happens; being the real reason or agent behind an effect.
    dispositions(Used broadly by educational researchers)
    The habits of mind and attitudes that contribute causally to being a critical thinker.
    epiphenomenalism(philosophy of mind)
    The thesis that mental states are causally inert — they do not explain or cause behaviour, which has a complete physical explanation
    quiddities(Term used by Russellian monists for the same category Kant discusses)

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