BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
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Are You Going to Run Out?
In some ways it's really important to just capture this diversity, because the standard view has been mechanism. The way that i think about three types of these distinctions. Is first, we have a bigger causal system, like a mechanism, pathway, cascade. And then if you go one step down, you can talk about different types of single causes. So with woodward, you talk about causes that are invariant or stable. Some causes produce their effects irreversibly, and others produce their effects reversibly,. This gives us a taxonomy of distinctions among causation and enther.
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