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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.

    Without counterfactual dependence or a connecting chain of such dependence, Lewis's framework cannot distinguish the preempting cause from the preempted backup.

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    • 1.Preemption cases show two distinct causal histories producing identical outcomes, making differentiation impossible without counterfactual dependence.
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    • 2.Lewis's own analysis requires actual causal chains; without counterfactuals, only the backup's actual non-occurrence remains, leaving causes observationally equivalent.
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    • 3.Intuition strongly favors the preemptor as the 'real' cause; this intuition requires counterfactuals to ground it formally within Lewis's framework.
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    • 1.Preemption involves asymmetric causal histories (one backup doesn't fire because preemptor acts first), which non-counterfactual facts can capture.
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    • 2.Lewis's framework includes event identity and timing conditions; preemptor and backup have different spatiotemporal features distinguishing them intrinsically.
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    • 3.Counterfactual dependence itself requires independent causal facts to ground it; relying on it presupposes rather than solves the distinction problem.
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