In late preemption, both Suzy's and Billy's throws are nomically sufficient for the effect, so any principled selection criterion must appeal to temporal or mechanistic facts that Lewis's purely counterfactual framework explicitly excludes.
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A conditional statement concerning what would be the case if some antecedent condition were true, evaluated across possible worlds; contraposition does not hold in general for counterfactuals.
late preemption(Philosophy of causation; illustrated by Quentin's chemotherapy case)
A causal structure in which a cause prevents an alternative sufficient cause from producing the effect, while itself producing the effect, such that there is no time prior to the effect at which removing the preempting cause would have prevented the effect from occurring.