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    Challenges→The subset-of-causal-relations account fails to accommodate Non-conjunctive specification

    If a determinate type is conjunctively analyzable into genus and differentia whose causal subsets together compose the determinate's causal relations, the account provides no basis for ruling out such conjunctive reduction

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    causal relations(Davidson's distinction between causal and logical relations)
    Relations that obtain between events themselves, independent of how those events are described
    causal subsets(in metaphysics and causality)
    Smaller groups of causes or causal relationships that are part of a larger causal picture.
    conjunctive reduction(in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)

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    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    Explaining something complex by breaking it down into simpler combined parts—and potentially eliminating the original concept as unnecessary.
    conjunctively analyzable(in logic and metaphysics)
    Able to be broken down into separate parts that work together, like explaining 'bachelor' as 'unmarried AND male.'
    determinate type(in metaphysics/ontology)
    A specific kind of thing or property that has definite characteristics—like 'red' as opposed to just 'color in general.'
    differentia(Aristotelian biological classification)
    A distinguishing feature (such as an internal organ or a capacity like inhaling/exhaling air) that characterizes groups of animals.
    genus(Aristotle's metaphysical classification scheme in the Metaphysics)
    A kind that must be differentiated by some differentia that falls outside that genus.

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    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

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