Causation

Lewis, D. (1973). Causation. Journal of Philosophy, 70(17), 556-567.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1973

Volume

70

Issue

17

Pages

556-567

DOI

10.2307/2025310

DOI registrant

Philosophy Documentation Center

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2025310

Cited from

organizational_management, philosophy

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Primes

• Adaptive Redirection
  • Items that survive deletion unchanged are ceremonial.

    This sourceEstablishes counterfactual dependence -- would the outcome have been different had it not occurred -- as the test of whether a factor made a difference, which is the inference the deletion test runs against each retained asset.

• Overdetermination
  • Counterfactual theories therefore use overdetermination as a central stress test rather than as an exotic naming convention.

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