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    If physical possibility grounds the necessity of the past... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The necessity of the past may simply be the principle that past events are outside the class of causable events.

    If physical possibility grounds the necessity of the past, contingent physical laws cannot underwrite the modal force needed for theological fatalism arguments.

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    • 1.Contingent laws lack necessity by definition, so they cannot ground necessity of past events through physical possibility alone.
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    • 2.Theological fatalism requires that God's foreknowledge entails necessity; contingent physical laws cannot bridge this logical gap.
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    • 3.If physical laws are contingent, alternative physical law-systems are metaphysically possible, undermining deterministic modal claims.
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    • 1.Necessity of the past holds regardless of law-contingency; once events occur, their occurrence becomes a fixed fact independent of laws.
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    • 2.Theological fatalism doesn't require physical laws to be necessary; God's causal determination suffices even with contingent laws.
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    • 3.Physical possibility grounding the past's necessity is about actuality, not modality; contingency of laws is irrelevant to factual fixity.
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