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    Challenges→Counterfactual power over the past (CPP) is not the same thing as changing the past.

    On a growing block or eternalist ontology, past facts are as fixed and real as present ones, making CPP require genuine counterfactual power over equally real, fully constituted states of affairs.

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    Key Terms

    CPP(Weaker than PPP for arguments involving conditionals)
    A conception of validity on which an argument preserves certainty: if probability 1 is assigned to the premises, probability 1 must be assigned to the conclusion
    Counterfactual power(power over past events)
    The ability to genuinely influence or change things that aren't actually happening or didn't actually happen—essentially, real causal control over alternative scenarios.
    Growing Block Theory(Set aside for simplicity in this section)
    A third way of thinking about the relation between ontology and time, distinct from presentism and eternalism.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    eternalism

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    The negation of temporalism; the view that propositions do not vary in truth-value across times.
    states of affairs(Stumpf's terminology in his contribution to logic)
    The specific content of judgment (belief)

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