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It is not the case that Death forecloses the very conditions under which any particular alternative life would have been actualized, making the counterfactual indeterminate.
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Counterfactuals about non-existent or dead entities are evaluated by standard logic; we meaningfully ask 'what if Hitler had been born in 1890 instead?' despite his death.
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The indeterminacy claim conflates epistemic limits (our ignorance) with metaphysical indeterminacy; counterfactuals can be determinate even if we cannot know their truth value.
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If death forecloses counterfactuals, it would also apply to roads not taken while alive, yet we judge those counterfactuals determinate by holding background conditions fixed.
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Counterfactuals require possible worlds where agents exist and make choices; death eliminates the agent entirely, removing the metaphysical ground for such worlds.
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We cannot know what choices a dead person would have made because the causal chain producing those choices is permanently severed and unknowable.
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Unlike unrealized but possible alternatives (paths not taken), death forecloses not just outcomes but the very conditions enabling alternative actualization.
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