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    Challenges→Counterfactual theories can accommodate normative asymmetries by restricting the relevant antecedent to the actual causal history, as Lewis's 'influence' account does.

    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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    Key Terms

    Causal chains(as used in philosophy of causation)
    A sequence of events where each one is caused by the previous one, like dominoes falling in a line.
    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    Lewis(philosopher who created the similarity metric being discussed)
    David Lewis was a famous American philosopher who developed influential theories about possible worlds—alternative ways reality could have been.
    Normative judgments(as used in ethics)
    Statements about what *should* be true or how things *ought* to be, rather than just describing what actually is.
    determinacy(Game theory, infinite games)

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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.

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