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    Challenges→Kripke and Devitt demonstrate that reference chains are sustained by causal-historical links independent of any spatio-temporal mapping.

    Spatio-temporal continuity is epistemically necessary for identifying causal chains: we verify causal links only by tracking objects through space-time, making mapping foundational.

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    Causal chains(as used in philosophy of causation)
    A sequence of events where each one is caused by the previous one, like dominoes falling in a line.
    Foundational(as the opposite of what cross-individual coordination is claimed to be)
    Serving as a basic starting point or fundamental building block from which other things are derived or built upon.
    Spatio-temporal continuity(as used in metaphysics)
    The idea that something remains the same thing if it occupies a continuous path through space and time—like a ship moving across the ocean stays the same ship.
    epistemically necessary(Epistemic logic)
    A proposition is epistemically necessary if it is either known or follows from what is known
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