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    Supports→A powers-based account of determination could potentially be extended to cover abstracta

    Non-causal functional roles can be associated with abstract entities (e.g., being a number as a determinable, being a prime number as a determinate)

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    A second concern with a powers-based approach is that, in applying only to broadly scientific goings-on, it doesn’t make sense of determination as holding between abstracta or other entities lacking powers. In response, a proponent of a powers-based account might try to extend the approach beyond specifically causal powers to one involving non-causal functional roles associated with, e.g., being a number (determinable), and being a prime number (determinate). This extension remains speculative,

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