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    It is not the case that Because the metaphysical commitments of backward causation are weaker than those of time travel, Mellor's resources sufficient to defeat the latter are insufficient to defeat the former.

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    • 1.Backward causation equally violates standard causal asymmetry and thermodynamic principles that ground objections to exotic causation generally.
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    • 2.Mellor's anti-time-travel arguments (like causal coherence constraints) apply equally to any causation violating temporal direction, not just time travel specifically.
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    • 3.Weaker metaphysical commitments don't guarantee survival against principled objections; backward causation faces the same fundamental challenge to causal asymmetry.
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    • 1.Backward causation requires only local causal relations between events; time travel requires closed timelike curves violating global spacetime structure.
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    • 2.Mellor's objections target time travel's logical paradoxes (grandfather problem); backward causation avoids these by preserving temporal order of causation.
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    • 3.Weaker metaphysical commitments require fewer controversial assumptions, making them harder to refute with the same argumentative resources.
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