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    Challenges→Defending causal contextuality entails abandoning FM for non-maximal observables of type f(Q)

    Hence the argument from causal necessity to the abandonment of FM overgeneralizes: it refutes only a naive categorical FM, not the dispositional or Bohmian variants Valentini and Dürr defend.

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    Bohmian(as used in physics and philosophy of science)
    Related to David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics, which suggests that particles have definite positions and follow hidden rules, allowing for both determinism and particle behavior.
    Dispositional
    # Dispositional A dispositional quality is something about how a person or object tends to behave or react in certain situations, rather than what it actually is doing right now. For example, calling someone "friendly" is dispositional because it describes their tendency to be warm and welcoming, not necessarily that they're smiling at this exact moment. It's the difference between what something is like in general versus what's happening in a specific instance.
    Free will (FM)(as used in metaphysics)
    The philosophical question of whether humans have genuine choice and control over their actions, or whether everything is determined by prior causes.
    Naive categorical free will(as used in debates about free will)

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    A basic version of free will that treats choices as completely separate from physical causes; the 'naive' part means it's an oversimplified view that doesn't account for modern physics.
    Valentini and Dürr(as used in contemporary philosophy of free will)
    Philosophers/physicists who have developed and defended versions of free will that work with Bohmian and dispositional approaches to physics.
    Variants(as used in logic)
    Different versions or forms of something—in this case, different ways the sorites argument can be structured.
    causal necessity(Hume's account in EHU 7.2.28–29; 8.1.5)
    The constant conjunction of similar objects together with a customary inference of the mind from one to the other; the feeling of necessary connection is a product of the imagination, not an objective force in the world.
    overgeneralizes(in logic and argumentation)
    When you take something true about one specific situation or group and incorrectly assume it's true about a much larger situation or group.

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