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    Challenges→Maximality alone does not guarantee hole freeness in the sense required to prevent causal determinism from failing prior to any consideration of time machines.

    If maximality already excludes the most physically relevant pathological spacetimes, the residual cases lacking hole freeness are physically unrealizable edge cases that do not threaten causal determinism in any robust sense.

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    Causal determinism(Metaphysics / philosophy of causation)
    The theory that present and future events are determined causally by their antecedents, rooted in the principle that all events have a sufficient cause that determines them. It excludes uncaused events but permits logically possible alternatives that are merely incompatible with the actual causal chain.
    Physically unrealizable(as used in philosophy of science)
    Something that cannot actually exist or happen in the real physical world, even though it might work perfectly in a mathematical equation.
    hole freeness (or 'hole-free')(philosophy of physics and general relativity)
    A property where spacetime doesn't have 'holes' or gaps that would allow two different physical situations to be physically indistinguishable; basically, the requirement that physics is complete and unambiguous.
    maximality(physics and philosophy of science)

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    The quality of being as complete or full as possible; in this context, it refers to a scientific model or theory that includes everything it possibly can.
    pathological spacetimes(general relativity and philosophy of physics)
    Solutions to Einstein's equations describing space and time that behave in weird, unusual, or problematic ways—like they violate normal physical laws or lead to impossible situations.
    robust sense(indicates a demanding or strict standard)
    A strong, full, or complete version of something—like saying something is a 'robust' substance means it really and truly qualifies as substance in the strongest way possible.

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