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    It is not the case that Disjunctivism accommodates determinable inheritance

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    • 1.Disjunctive properties are not genuine properties but mere logical constructions lacking causal-explanatory unity (Armstrong 1978).
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    • 2.If determinables must be genuine properties grounding causal powers, disjunctions cannot play this role regardless of entailment relations.
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    • 3.Thus the entailment from disjunct to disjunction establishes logical containment but not genuine property inheritance.
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    • 1.The disjunctivist analysis makes determinable instantiation parasitic on whichever determinate happens to be instantiated, inverting the ontological priority.
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    • 2.Genuine determinable inheritance requires that the determinable property is metaphysically prior and explanatory, not merely derivable post hoc (Yablo 1992).
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    • 1.Instancing a disjunct entails instancing any associated disjunctions
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    • 2.Determinable inheritance holds that instancing a determinate entails instancing its determinable
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