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    It is not the case that The subset-of-causal-relations account can block token-identity between generic and specific types

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    • 1.Token causal profiles are individuated by their actual causal history, not by the subset relations holding between their type-level causal powers.
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    • 2.Two tokens sharing identical actual causal histories remain identical even if their types stand in proper-subset causal relations, since type-level structure underdetermines token identity.
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    • 1.Yablo's own account of determinables entails that a determinate's causal powers include but do not exceed those of its determinable, making the subset relation symmetric at the token level.
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    • 2.If the subset relation between generic and specific causal powers collapses into equivalence for any particular token instance, the subset account loses its principled basis for blocking token-identity.
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    • 1.If the proper subset relation between causal relations of generic and specific types is preserved at the level of tokens, then tokens of generic types differ causally from tokens of specific types
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    • 2.Causal difference at the token level is sufficient to block token-identity
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