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    The apparent indeterminacy in quantum cases reflects epis... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Causation does not involve determination or necessity.

    The apparent indeterminacy in quantum cases reflects epistemic limits or incomplete causal models, not an absence of determination in the causal relation itself.

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    • 1.Classical physics appeared indeterminate before we discovered underlying mechanisms; quantum indeterminacy may reflect similar knowledge gaps.
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    • 2.Bell's theorem rules out local hidden variables, but nonlocal deterministic models like Bohmian mechanics remain logically consistent with all data.
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    • 3.If causation requires determination, rejecting it for quantum events requires proving no complete causal model could exist in principle.
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    • 1.Quantum field theory successfully predicts outcomes using intrinsic randomness; positing hidden determinism adds unobservable entities without explanatory gain.
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    • 2.The Born rule's empirical adequacy doesn't establish determinism exists; Occam's razor favors accepting fundamental indeterminacy as ontologically real.
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    • 3.If deterministic models require retrocausality or nonlocality to match quantum predictions, determinism becomes less parsimonious than indeterminism.
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