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    Challenges→Quiddities can be physically efficacious even if a single type of physical disposition might have been grounded by a distinct quiddity from the quiddity that actually grounds it

    Humean contingency of causal relations applies to causal relata, not to the grounding relation between a property and its causal profile.

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    • 1.Causal relations between distinct events are contingent (Hume showed this), but properties have their causal profiles essentially or necessarily.
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    • 2.Grounding is a metaphysical relation of constitution, unlike causation between separate relata, so it needn't obey Humean contingency constraints.
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    • 3.A property's identity just is its causal profile—changing the profile changes the property, making the connection non-contingent by necessity.
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    • 1.If grounding relations are non-contingent, they need justification distinct from causation, but no principled difference between them is evident.
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    • 2.Properties could have had different causal profiles in different possible worlds, suggesting grounding relations are equally Humean-contingent.
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    • 3.The distinction assumes grounding is non-empirical while causation is, but both seem equally open to empirical discovery and modal variation.
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