Befitting names redux

[Bill Palmer]

Would it be accurate to say that "nominal determinism" applies (or
"applied") in these cases?

Bill Palmer

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> Two recent deaths:
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> Justice (federal district court, Texas) William Wayne Justice.
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> Prophet (or at least "church founder") Elizabeth Clare
> Prophet.  (According to the NYTimes, she "called on her followers in
> the late 1980s to prepare for nuclear Armageddon" -- perhaps merely a
> premature prophet.)
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> Joel
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