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    Supports→There are no irreducible determinable properties; all universals must be maximally determinate.

    Determinable properties like 'having some mass' are merely abundant, class-defined properties reducible to sets of possibilia sharing determinate values, not irreducible universals.

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    Abundant(ontology)
    In philosophy, this means there are many, many of these things—so abundant properties are any grouping of things we can describe in language, whether or not they're fundamental to reality.
    Class-defined properties(metaphysics)
    Properties that are defined by the set or group of things that share them, rather than existing as something independent and real on their own.
    Determinable properties(metaphysics and properties)
    General characteristics or qualities that can take on different specific forms—like 'having some mass' is determinable because it can be any specific amount of mass.
    Determinate values(metaphysics)
    Specific, exact amounts or versions—like 'exactly 5 kilograms' is a determinate value, whereas 'some mass' is vague.
    Irreducible universals

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    (metaphysics)
    Universal properties (like 'redness' or 'roundness') that exist as fundamental building blocks and cannot be broken down into simpler things.
    Reducible(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    Able to be broken down or explained in terms of something simpler or more basic; for example, saying 'water' is reducible to hydrogen and oxygen.
    possibilia(The ontological commitments that actualists seek to avoid)
    Merely possible individuals — entities that exist in some possible world but not in the actual world
    universals(Debated in Lefèvre's Disceptatio de universali between two students of Chrysippus's academy)
    Either what particular classes of things share, or what those who reason say they share (decided by convention)

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