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    Challenges→A causal basis for a disposition D is a property or property-complex P such that, given the laws of nature, whenever an object x has P and undergoes the characteristic stimulus of D, it is causally necessary that x exhibits the characteristic manifestation of D.

    Many dispositions in quantum mechanics (e.g., radioactive decay) have bases that produce manifestations only with some probability, not necessity.

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    • 1.Quantum wave functions describe superposition states that genuinely lack definite properties until measurement, supporting probabilistic bases.
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    • 2.Bell's theorem and experimental violations of local realism demonstrate quantum indeterminism cannot be reduced to hidden deterministic variables.
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    • 3.Dispositions traditionally require causal sufficiency from their bases, but quantum mechanics shows bases can be causally complete yet probabilistic.
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    • 1.The Born rule may describe epistemic limits rather than ontological indeterminism; probabilistic descriptions don't prove probabilistic reality.
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    • 2.Many-worlds interpretation treats all outcomes as deterministic; apparent probability emerges from branching rather than fundamental indeterminism.
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    • 3.If dispositions require deterministic bases by definition, quantum phenomena don't show bases with probabilistic manifestations—they lack real dispositions.
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