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    Relying on process-tracing to resolve same-time preemptio... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→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.

    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.Lewis's counterfactual framework struggles with simultaneous overdetermination because counterfactuals ignore actual causal processes occurring at t.
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    • 2.Process-tracing examines actual causal mechanisms, which counterfactuals structurally cannot, making it necessary for cases Lewis's theory underdetermines.
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    • 3.If Lewis designed his framework for preemption cases yet it fails on same-time variants, this reveals a framework limitation rather than a conceptual gap.
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    • 1.Process-tracing may simply describe causal pathways without solving the metaphysical question of which event is truly *the* cause in overdetermined cases.
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    • 2.Appealing to process details risks abandoning counterfactual analysis rather than supplementing it, potentially losing theoretical parsimony and clarity.
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    • 3.Lewis's framework may succeed for same-time preemption if refined with better counterfactual conditions, not by adopting an entirely different methodology.
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