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    It is not the case that Disjunctivism accommodates causal compatibility between determinables and determinates

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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