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    Supports→Retrocausation (the later coin flip A causing the earlier prediction B) generates a paradox because intervention is always possible after the prediction is made.

    If retrocausation holds, then any apparent 'intervention' after prediction B must itself be part of the causal chain that produced B, making true prevention nomologically impossible.

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    Retrocausation(in philosophy of causation)
    A theoretical situation where an effect happens before its cause—basically, the future causes the past, which is usually considered impossible in normal reality.
    True prevention(as used in discussions of causality and free will)
    Actually stopping something from happening, rather than just changing how it happens.
    causal chain(Avicenna's cosmological argument in Ilāhiyyāt VIII)
    An ordered series of causes within a given causal type (formal, material, efficient, or final) that Avicenna argues must terminate in a First Cause
    intervention(Used within manipulability theories of causation)
    An action or event I on a variable X that breaks the causal connection between X and its causes while leaving other causal mechanisms intact, or that does not affect Y via a causal route that does not go through X.

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    nomologically impossible(as used in modal metaphysics and philosophy of physics)
    Something that violates the fundamental laws of nature according to a scientific theory, making it impossible—not just in practice, but in principle.

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