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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What Is Causation in the Language of Possible Worlds?
Lewis had this idea that not only, well, maybe we're glossing over this for people who haven't listened to the Jada Pearl podcast. But what makes the statement true or false is just events that happen in the actual world. Events which can be described without bringing in the notion of causation or law at all. That's an astonishing claim and should be greeted with an incredulous stare until you see all the work that Lewis did to make it plausible.
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