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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Relationship Between Causation and Counterfactual Reasoning

The concept of causality is closely related to counterfactual reasoning. How these two fit together is a good question that I haven't thought about it, says Andrew Keen. In the background of this, he always has in mind Bertrand Russell's famous remark: The concept of causation is like the British monarchy.

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