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    Metaphysical argument is a legitimate basis for evaluating the prospects of determinism, even absent a Final Theory of Physics

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    • 1.We may never have a Final Theory of Everything in our lifetime
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    • 2.Even if we had such a theory, it remains unclear whether it would be deterministic or indeterministic
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    • 3.Physical and experimental grounds alone cannot currently settle the question of determinism
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    • 1.Metaphysical arguments about determinism are only epistemically credible when constrained by the best available physical theories, as Quine's naturalism establishes.
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    • 2.Arguments constructed absent a Final Theory systematically risk encoding intuitions shaped by pre-quantum, pre-relativistic physics rather than genuine modal insight.
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    • 3.Therefore, metaphysical argument unconstrained by physics produces conclusions that reflect conceptual parochialism, not legitimate evaluation of determinism's prospects.
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    • 1.The historical record shows metaphysical arguments for determinism (e.g., Laplace's demon) were decisively overturned by empirical physics, not by rival metaphysics.
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    • 2.If metaphysical arguments are legitimate evaluative tools absent a Final Theory, then Laplacean determinism would have retained philosophical standing despite quantum mechanics.
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    Let us suppose that we shall never have the Final Theory of Everything before us—at least in our lifetime—and that we also remain unclear (on physical/experimental grounds) as to whether that Final Theory will be of a type that can or cannot be deterministic. Is there nothing left that could sway our belief toward or against determinism? There is, of course: metaphysical argument. Metaphysical arguments on this issue are not currently very popular. But philosophical fashions change at least twic
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