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    Conjunct (2) is not a state of affairs to be 'brought abo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An omnipotent agent ought not to be required to have the power to bring about state of affairs (f).

    Conjunct (2) is not a state of affairs to be 'brought about' but rather an absence of causation, which is a relational property of the total causal history.

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    • 1.Absence of causation is fundamentally different from positive events, so it cannot be 'brought about' through action.
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    • 2.Causal histories are determinate facts about the world that obtain or fail to obtain, not states we can engineer.
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    • 3.Treating absences as relational properties avoids the category mistake of treating negations as causally efficacious entities.
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    • 1.We routinely describe ourselves as 'bringing about' absences—e.g., stopping a process or preventing an event from occurring.
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    • 2.If causal histories are relational properties of total states, they can still be altered by our interventions, making them actionable.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'brought about' and 'relational property' may be merely semantic rather than ontologically significant.
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