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'Metaphysics', 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis' and 'Epistemic Injustice'
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett]
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Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Is there cause outside matter, and can it be separated, and is it one or many? [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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We exercise to be fit, but need fitness to exercise [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
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634
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Pure Forms and numbers can't cause anything, and especially not movement [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett]
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A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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When a power and its object meet in the right conditions, an action necessarily follows [Aristotle]
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