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    It is not the case that Late preemption does not require the cause to affect the timing of the effect at all; the effect may occur at exactly the same time regardless.

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    • 1.Lewis's original counterfactual analysis requires that effects counterfactually depend on their causes, meaning the effect would not have occurred without the cause.
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    • 2.If the effect occurs at exactly the same time regardless of which process produces it, no counterfactual dependence obtains between cause and effect.
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    • 3.Without counterfactual dependence or a connecting chain of such dependence, Lewis's framework cannot distinguish the preempting cause from the preempted backup.
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    • 1.Ned Hall's distinction between 'dependence' and 'production' accounts of causation entails that same-time preemption collapses the two accounts into indistinguishability.
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    • 2.When timing cannot differentiate the actual causal process from the counterfactual one, process-tracing accounts like Dowe's conserved quantity theory must do the explanatory work Lewis's account cannot.
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    • 3.Relying on process-tracing to resolve same-time preemption concedes that pure counterfactual analyses are insufficient for cases Lewis himself designed the framework to handle.
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    • 1.Quentin's case can be modified so that, had he not received chemotherapy, he would have died at exactly the same time he actually died.
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    • 2.This modified case still satisfies the structural conditions for late preemption.
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    • 3.Therefore, the timing differential between actual and counterfactual effects is not an essential feature of late preemption.
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