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Full Idea
In spite of Mackie's announced aim of analysing singular causal statements, it is doubtful that the entities that he is concerned with can be consistently interpreted as spatio-temporally bounded individual events.
Gist of Idea
Mackie tries to analyse singular causal statements, but his entities are too vague for events
Source
comment on J.L. Mackie (Causes and Conditions [1965]) by Jaegwon Kim - Causes and Events: Mackie on causation §3
Book Ref
'Causation', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Tooley,M. [OUP 1993], p.70
A Reaction
This is because Mackie mainly talks about 'conditions'. Nearly every theory I encounter in modern philosophy gets accused of either circular definitions, or inadequate individuation conditions for key components. A tough world for theory-makers.