Concept
Mechanism, not determinism
The framework's actual commitment: causes exist and are findable. Compatible with determinism and with its denial, and the practice is identical under both, since either way your Local Rule is an input. The metaphysics does not reach the practice, which is why the book takes no position on it.
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Four — The Ground UnderneathThe Limits of Running It ForwardFinding the rule is not predicting the form. Two things make a Global Form unpredictable, a named rule is only a hypothesis, and fatalism turns out to be unavailable rather than false.