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    It is not the case that In Mellor's equally distributed world, there is no fact of the matter about which chain type connects individual b to individual a, so no determinate causal process is identifiable.

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    • 1.Causal chains can be multiply realizable; symmetry in one distribution doesn't eliminate all physical differentiation.
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    • 2.Indeterminacy of *which* chain type obtains differs from indeterminacy of *whether* causal connection exists at all.
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    • 3.Equal probability distributions over causal structures still ground objective facts about the causal dependency relationship.
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    • 1.Causal facts require asymmetric physical differences to ground directional claims between events.
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    • 2.Equal distribution eliminates the physical basis for distinguishing b→a from a→b causal orderings.
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    • 3.Without determinate grounding, there is no fact of the matter—only conventional labeling of symmetric relations.
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