Failure to distinguish generic types from disjunctive constructions of determinate types means the account does not block metaphysical reducibility of determinable types to disjunctions of determinate types
A way of describing something by listing separate options connected by 'or'—like saying 'the light is either red or blue or green' instead of just 'the light is colored.'
Generic types(metaphysics/ontology)
General categories or kinds of things that don't specify exact details—like 'color' before you decide if it's red, blue, or green.
Metaphysical reducibility(metaphysics)
The idea that one kind of thing can be broken down into or explained entirely in terms of other, simpler kinds of things.
A subset-of-causal-relations account of generic/determinable universals promisingly accommodates many features of determination, for reasons similar to those attaching to powers-based accounts, below. It also ensures the metaphysical irreducibility of a generic/determinable type to any specific/determinate type, by the principle of the indiscernibility of identicals (if \(G\) has only a proper subset of causal relations of \(S\), \(G\) cannot be identified with \(S\)); and if this proper subset