Sufficient Causes: On Oxygen, Matches, and Fires
We demonstrate how counterfactuals can be used to compute the probability that one event was/is a sufficient cause of another, and how counterfactuals emerge organically from basic scientific knowledge, rather than manipulative experiments. We contrast this demonstration with the potential outcome f...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2019-0026 |