Even with the influence constraint, Lewis's account struggles to handle cases where actual causal chains are complex or indeterminate, undermining its determinacy for normative judgments.
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The property that for any game property φ, either player i has a strategy to force a set of histories satisfying φ, or player j has a strategy to force ¬φ; formally: {i}φ ∨ {j}¬φ
influence constraint(in theories of causation)
A rule or limitation in a theory about causation that specifies how causes must somehow 'reach' or 'connect to' their effects—basically a requirement that causes can't affect things that are completely isolated from them.