This chapter proposes an empirical explication of the notion of 'causation', which the chapter calls a generalized explication of 'causation' (GEC), based on the numerical balance between instantiations of extensive quantities. In this way, the chapter shows that both the conserved and the non-conserved quantities have a role. It follows that the Salmon-Dowe approach should be considered valid only in particular cases.
Explicating the notion of causation: the role of extensive quantities
BONIOLO, Giovanni
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2011
Abstract
This chapter proposes an empirical explication of the notion of 'causation', which the chapter calls a generalized explication of 'causation' (GEC), based on the numerical balance between instantiations of extensive quantities. In this way, the chapter shows that both the conserved and the non-conserved quantities have a role. It follows that the Salmon-Dowe approach should be considered valid only in particular cases.File in questo prodotto:
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