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    It is not the case that Macroscopic repeatability does not establish determinism, because quantum stochasticity is merely washed out at large scales rather than absent.

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    • 1.Indeterminist physicists acknowledge that macroscopic repeatability is usually obtainable.
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    • 2.Macroscopic repeatability occurs because phenomena are large-scale enough that quantum stochasticity gets washed out.
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    • 3.Washing out quantum stochasticity is not the same as the absence of quantum indeterminism.
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    • 1.David Bohm's ontological interpretation demonstrates that apparent macroscopic determinism can coexist with irreducible quantum indeterminacy at the subquantum level.
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    • 2.If determinism requires the absence of indeterminacy at all levels, then macroscopic regularity cannot establish determinism without ruling out Bohmian hidden variables.
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    • 3.The statistical suppression of quantum effects at macro-scales leaves the underlying ontological structure indeterminist, making repeatability epistemically misleading as evidence for determinism.
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    • 1.Cartwright's 'dappled world' thesis establishes that domain-specific regularities do not entail universal deterministic laws governing the full causal structure of nature.
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    • 2.Macroscopic repeatability is a bounded, domain-relative phenomenon that cannot license inference to global determinism without committing the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
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