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

    By the principle of the indiscernibility of identicals, entities that differ in any property cannot be identical

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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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