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'Events and Their Names', 'On the Necessity of Origin' and 'Causal Explanation'
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Explaining match lighting in general is like explaining one lighting of a match [Lewis]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / d. Selecting the cause
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Ways of carving causes may be natural, but never 'right' [Lewis]
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We only pick 'the' cause for the purposes of some particular enquiry. [Lewis]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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Causal dependence is counterfactual dependence between events [Lewis]
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