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    It is not the case that Therefore, the causal premise requires a non-temporal sense of priority that has never been adequately specified or defended.

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    • 1.Non-temporal priority is either metaphorically temporal (merely disguised) or unintelligible—a false middle ground between two options.
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    • 2.Physical causation, the primary explanatory domain, is intrinsically temporal; prioritizing abstract cases distorts the concept's core use.
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    • 3.Grounding relations and metaphysical dependence offer adequate non-temporal frameworks without requiring priority—making priority unnecessary.
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    • 1.Temporal priority (A before B) cannot ground causation since causation must explain why B follows A, not merely describe sequence.
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    • 2.Causal explanations in mathematics and logic succeed without temporal order, suggesting non-temporal priority is conceptually coherent.
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    • 3.Attempts to define non-temporal priority (via dependence, determination, grounding) remain circular or collapse into temporal notions.
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