Two Concepts of Double Prevention
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چکیده
Is double prevention causation? Some say yes and some no, but the answer is no. Interrupting prevention, where A prevents B from continuing to prevent something, causation, while blocking intervenes before has begun preventing anything, not. I present two arguments for this thesis. First, it sorts canonical examples of correctly. Second, well-known theoretical that not causation only show causation.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ergo
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2330-4014']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2620