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On the other hand, while "post-utopian" is linked to "colonial alienation" and vice versa, these two elements don't connect to the rest of the causal fabric - so that must not be a universe.
If I really want to, there's an easy way for me to sidestep this. I just postulate something called "post-consciousness" which is caused both by colonial alienation and by particular arrangements of neurons in the brains of particular people (in a similar way to that in which epiphenomenalists would say consciousness is caused). Presto! A causal chain from my familiar causal fabric to colonial alienation.
In fact, we can add an extra node to any causal diagram without affecting the... (read more)
This isn't a logical contradiction: perhaps what you mean is that we can deduce from this system that EARTHQUAKE is false. This would give us a contradiction in a modal system, if we also had the theorem ⊢ possibly(EARTHQUAKE), but as it stands it isn't yet contradictory.