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27 December 2020
Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Reinserted from a prior revision that we also borrow from the everyday "dependent [upon]" sense of "contingent".
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Laird
→But how does it work?: Corrected the language of the previous commit.
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Laird
→But how does it work?: Added a note on the potential for temporal uniqueness in contingent causal processes.
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23 December 2020
22 December 2020
Laird
→But how does it work?: Majorly overhauled this section to introduce, and frame it in terms of, *reasons*.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Added yet another clarification.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Added a further clarification.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Clarified the wording introduced by the previous edit.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Replaced the verbose terminological aside with a simpler justification of "contingent" based on its definition in logic.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Added a terminological aside and some headings to break up the content a little
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16 December 2020
Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Improved the wording of the commit two back.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Fixed a typo in the previous commit
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Added a note that S1 and S2 are themselves free choices.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Improved the added clarification re the sense of "contingent" being used.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Corrected the placement of the opening square bracket of the previous commit.
mLaird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Added a clarification re the sense of "contingent" being used.
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Laird
→Refuting the argument from incompatibility with a mutually exclusive dichotomy: Improved wording re causal contingency (vs necessity)
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