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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causal powers(Argued to be intrinsic features of the entity)
The capacity of an entity to produce effects.
determinables(Philosophy of properties and universals)
General properties (e.g., redness, color) that are instantiated by more specific determinate properties (e.g., scarlet, crimson); their mind-independent reality is disputed by anti-realists
determinate(Contrasted with determinables; taken to be independently posited in the causal/ontological economy)
A maximally specific instance of a determinable property (e.g., scarlet as a determinate of red)