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    It is not the case that Causation does not involve determination or necessity.

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    • 1.Probabilistic causation can be reformulated as determination relative to a more complete description of the physical state, as Lewis's counterfactual analysis shows.
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    • 2.The apparent indeterminacy in quantum cases reflects epistemic limits or incomplete causal models, not an absence of determination in the causal relation itself.
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    • 3.If counterfactual dependence (had the decay not occurred, the explosion would not have occurred) is sufficient for causation, necessity is preserved under a modal reading.
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    • 1.Mackie's INUS account demonstrates that causes are insufficient but necessary parts of sufficient conditions, preserving a modal constraint within singular causal claims.
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    • 2.The Geiger counter case identifies radioactive decay as necessary within the actual causal constellation, meaning necessity is not eliminated but relativized to background conditions.
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    • 1.In the Geiger counter bomb case, the bomb exploding was caused by the Geiger counter arrangement.
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    • 2.The radioactive decay was not sufficient to produce the explosion — it was merely probabilistically connected to it.
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    • 3.If causation required necessity or determination, the radioactive decay could not count as a cause in this case.
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