Oppenheimer seems to somewhat agree with my thoughts on finality and exhaustiveness, as he says "Noting what men have said about what they thought, who...thought it, and why he thought it, one finds...that the contingent and unpredictable, peculiar greatnesses and blindnesses of...men play a determining part". These are the "act(s) and decision(s) of men" to which Butterfield refers, the "unpredictable character of the ultimate of consequences" of which are the changes Oppenheimer refers to.