William Hasker's 'Gordian Knot' argument establishes that any world in which Jones does otherwise just is a world with a numerically distinct past, which collapses the CPP/changing-the-past distinction into a merely verbal one.
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Merely verbal distinction(describing the nature of the distinction being collapsed)
A difference that only exists in how we use words, not in any real difference between the actual things themselves—like calling a car 'automobile' versus 'car'; they're the same thing with different names.
Numerically distinct past(describing different possible histories)
A completely separate, different version of history—as opposed to just the same past described in different words. 'Numerically distinct' means it's a genuinely different thing, not just a different way of talking about the same thing.
William Hasker(as the originator of the 'no-freeze' objection)
A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in philosophy of religion and metaphysics, known for developing arguments about how God can know future events without controlling them.