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Results tagged with causation
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Are things "caused" by the butterfly effect actually caused by them?
I'm not talking about 'chaos theory', or the equally
trendy 'complexity theory', but just about the ordinary statistics of
causation. …
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Can the absense of something be a cause?
I wonder, can the absence of something be a cause? My first inclination is to say yes. For example, if someone is in a room with no air, the lack of air will cause them to die. But what really is the …
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Reference request for texts on causation
I have been very interested in causation lately. I am especially interested in whether it can be defined at all, or it must be taken as a brute fact. … I would love to read some texts on causation, and see what philosophers have said about it, about possible definitions of it, how it relates to physics, etc. I want to see some references. …
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