Type Causation

The way in which you find out about type level claims is an important way. Type causation has to do with a something like a repeatablea causal relation. But often, particularly in biological but also in other sorts of contexts, we have the idea that a cause can influence an effect by many, many different routes along lots of different routes. You might be interested not justin the overall effect, but what happens along those individual routes. That's now what's sometimes called a path pacific, a notion of causation or a i talk about it in my two thousand and three book as involving a notion of contributing cause or causation along e route.

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