Information Connects Logic and Causation
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Problem: distinguish chance regularities from causal regularities. Lewis’s solution: use ideal theory – promote those regularities to causal that, under reflective equilibrium, given all the evidence, retain their regularity under a nearest possible worlds account of counterfactuals Thus, R2: A causes B iff B is later than A and there is a constant conjunction of events of type A and type B in which events of type B always follow events of type A and, The constant conjunction remains, under reflective equilibrium, given all the evidence under a nearest possible worlds account of counterfactuals
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