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    Challenges→The purple flame case is not a genuine counterexample to the transitivity of causation, because the contrast situations at each end of the two causal statements do not match.

    Introducing contrastivism as a repair to transitivity failures is an ad hoc modification that abandons the original reductive ambitions of the counterfactual theory.

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