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    Any gap between cause and effect—spatial or temporal—requ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→So-called second causes are not real causes because real causes cannot be spatially or temporally distinct from their effects.

    Any gap between cause and effect—spatial or temporal—requires an explanatory bridge that itself must be continuously present, making the alleged second cause causally idle.

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    • 1.Causation requires continuous causal influence; any break in causal process means influence was interrupted.
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    • 2.If a second cause merely transmits a prior cause's influence, it adds nothing new—it's explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.Only continuously present entities (God, substance, field) can bridge gaps without introducing new causal requirements.
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    • 1.Gaps don't require bridges; events can be causally connected by counterfactual dependence relations alone.
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    • 2.Second causes genuinely produce new effects; transmission of influence differs from being explanatorily idle or redundant.
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    • 3.Physics shows causation works via discrete interactions and fields, not continuous presence—no bridge requirement needed.
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