Is everyday causation deterministic or probabilistic?
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Is everyday causation deterministic or probabilistic?
One view of causation is deterministic: A causes B means that whenever A occurs, B occurs. An alternative view is that causation is probabilistic: the assertion means that given A, the probability of B is greater than some criterion, such as the probability of B given not-A. Evidence about the induction of causal relations cannot readily decide between these alternative accounts, and so we exam...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Psychologica
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0001-6918
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.01.015