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    It is not the case that Explaining away the counterexample via contrastive semantics masks the metaphysically significant fact that causation is not a single unified relation, thereby sacrificing theoretical insight for formal tidiness.

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    • 1.Contrastive semantics successfully handles counterexamples without positing new causal relations, suggesting apparent plurality may be semantic variation.
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    • 2.Scientific progress often shows that apparent diversity reduces to unified underlying mechanisms when properly analyzed—monism deserves serious consideration.
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    • 3.Formal tidiness that yields predictive power and explanatory scope is itself a form of theoretical insight, not its opposite.
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    • 1.Causation exhibits fundamentally different logical structures: event causation, agent causation, and mental causation operate by distinct principles.
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    • 2.Unifying disparate phenomena under one formal framework often obscures rather than reveals their underlying nature and explanatory mechanisms.
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    • 3.Metaphysical insight requires acknowledging real discontinuities in nature rather than smoothing them over with semantic machinery.
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