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    Challenges→If a variable set is causally sufficient, then the error variables for any two variables in that set are probabilistically independent.

    If the CCP admits physically realized exceptions, probabilistic independence cannot be derived from mere absence of causal relations between error terms.

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    • 1.Physical realizability introduces contingent constraints that mere absence of causal relations cannot capture or explain.
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    • 2.Independence requires positive warrant; lack of causal connection is necessary but insufficient without additional structural constraints.
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    • 3.Systems with physically realized exceptions exhibit dependencies that formal causal graphs alone cannot represent adequately.
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    • 1.Absence of causal relations between error terms already entails probabilistic independence in standard causal models by definition.
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    • 2.Physical realizability and formal independence are distinct questions; conflating them obscures rather than clarifies the issue.
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