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    Challenges→The hole indeterminism is empirically undetectable

    If hole-shifted models represent identical physical situations, the 'indeterminism' is merely a notational artifact of the mathematical formalism, not a genuine physical underdetermination.

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    Hole-shifted models(physics and philosophy of physics)
    Mathematical descriptions of a physical situation where you've moved around the location of everything in space and time, but nothing else has actually changed about how the system works.
    Mathematical formalism(philosophy of physics)
    The symbolic language and rules physicists use to describe nature precisely—like equations—as opposed to what those equations actually represent in reality.
    Notational artifact(philosophy of mathematics and logic)
    Something that appears to exist or be true only because of how we've written or symbolized the problem, not because it's actually real in the world.
    Physical underdetermination(as used in philosophy of physics)
    A situation where the same real physical facts could be accurately described in fundamentally different ways, leaving us uncertain about what reality is actually like.

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    indeterminism(implied by the text's classification of agent causation as a form of indeterminism)
    The view that there are certain events that are not fixed as a matter of natural law

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