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    Determinable and determinate instances are not token-iden... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Determinable types are not metaphysically reducible to (identified with) disjunctive or other constructions from determinates.

    Determinable and determinate instances are not token-identical (they are token-distinct).

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    Wilson (2012) moreover argues, contra MacDonald and MacDonald (1986), Ehring (1996), and others, that determinables and determinates are token-distinct, since if they were token-identical, then determinable instances would be associated with more powers than are associated with their type—but that would be reason for denying that the instance was of the determinable type. This consideration also pushes against taking determinable types to be metaphysically reducible to (identified with) disjun

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