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Disjunctivism accommodates causal compatibility between determinables and determinates

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1.Disjunctivism identifies determinable instances with disjunctive property instances and determinate instances with disjunct instances
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2.Identity of instances entails causal compatibility
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1.Disjunctive properties are not genuine properties but mere Cambridge groupings, lacking the causal unity required for property-level causation.
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2.If determinable instances just are disjunctive instances, determinables inherit the causal impotence of disjunctions, undermining rather than securing compatibility.
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1.Sydney Shoemaker's causal theory of properties requires that genuine properties confer stable causal powers across contexts, which disjunctions systematically fail to do.
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2.A disjunctive 'property' like being scarlet-or-vermillion has no single causal profile, so identifying determinables with disjunctions leaves determinable causation unexplained.
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Disjunctivism explains several features of determination: Requisite determination is accommodated since the instancing of a disjunction requires the instancing of a disjunct; Determinable inheritance is accommodated since the instancing of a disjunct entails the instancing of any associated disjunctions (see Rodriguez-Pereyra 2002, Massin 2013); Causal compatibility is accommodated via the identity of determinable (disjunctive) and determinate (disjunct) instances. And while disjunctivism violat

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